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

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

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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 was anything great achieved without danger

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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