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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

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.

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

All warfare is based on deception.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

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