The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

All warfare is based on deception.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

War is over ... If you want it.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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.