The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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