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

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

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.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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