War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

All warfare is based on deception.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.