Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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.
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.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
