When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

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

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

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

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

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

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

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.