A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.