All warfare is based on deception.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
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.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
