We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
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.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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 war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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.
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.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
War is over ... If you want it.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
