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

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

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

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.

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