You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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.
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.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.