The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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