If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
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.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
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.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
All warfare is based on deception.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
