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

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.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

All warfare is based on deception.