War Quotes

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies... the mystic chords of memory... will swell the chorus of the Union... touched by the better angels of our nature.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

The people of the South have too much of good sense, and good temper, to attempt the ruin of the government ... At least, so I hope and believe.

My opinion is that no state can, in any way lawfully, get out of the Union, without the consent of the others; and that it is the duty of the President, and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.

A measure made expedient by a war is no precedent for times of peace.

A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the future of war.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight ... has not the right to exist.

Only thus shall we win the living space that we need.

How important the expansion of our people's living space (Lebensraum)...to permanently secure their food supplies.

Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter... History sees in him solely the founder of a state... What weak Western European civilization thinks about me is of no consequence.

I have assured him... that once this problem is solved... I shall take no further interest in the Czech state... We don't want any Czechs!

When diplomacy ends, war begins.

I am now fifty. I would rather have the war now than when I am fifty-five or sixty.

We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish capitalist world will not survive the twentieth century.

If we don't take Maikop and Grozny, then I must put an end to the war.