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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

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

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.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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