In war, the most victorious strategist is he who is able to impose his will on the enemy without even having to fight.
The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong, and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.