Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
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.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
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.
