I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.

There have been only 268 of the past 3 421 years free of war.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.