It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

War is over ... If you want it.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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