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The real war will never get in the books.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

People like to talk about war.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

War is the last refuge of the incompetent.