Be in battle daunting, in courts humane.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never good.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Those who give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.

All wars are made for the acquisition of assets.

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

The war justifies the existence of the army. By destroying it.

War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.

Money is the soul of war.

It is the first step that, in all wars, reveals genius.