The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
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.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
