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History shows that there are no invincible armies.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.