Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.