War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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.

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.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger