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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

All warfare is based on deception.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

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

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

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

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