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

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

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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

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.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.