All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.