I have not yet begun to fight!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
War would end if the dead could return.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
War is hell.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
War is the science of destruction.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
Sweat saves blood.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
