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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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.

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

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

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