All warfare is based on deception.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
War is over ... If you want it.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
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.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
