A professional soldier understands that war means killing people war means maiming people war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Strike against war for without you no battles can be fought!
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place no matter by whom brought on we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without we must try to extinguish it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Man has gone long enough or even too long without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Without the way there is no going without the truth there is no knowing without the life there is no living.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it but only in such a way that it catches you.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those who really like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.