Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

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

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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

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

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

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.