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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

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

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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.

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.