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.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Vietnam is a country, not a war.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong, and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
War is what happens when language fails.
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
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.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
In war, the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.