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

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

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

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

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

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

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

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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