Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

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.

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