You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

If we don't end war, war will end us.