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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.