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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

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

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.