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

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

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.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

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

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.

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