Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
All warfare is based on deception.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
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.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.