War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.