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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

War is over ... If you want it.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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