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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

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

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

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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