The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

Never was anything great achieved without danger

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.