It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
All warfare is based on deception.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
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.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.