To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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

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

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.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

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