Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

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

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

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

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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