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.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
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.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
