Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.