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.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.