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.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

All warfare is based on deception.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.