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

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.

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

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.

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

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