Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

War would end if the dead could return.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

The truth is if anyone saw my home life I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds I fancy if Emperors hear the truth that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

No human being will ever know the Truth for even if they happen to say it by chance they would not even known they had done so.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth because the truth is that I am fat and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat I agree whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold the pulpit and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Truth after all wears a different face to everybody and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.

I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Above all I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling I have found is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

If you would be a real seeker after truth it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt as far as possible all things.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.