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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.