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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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.

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

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

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.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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.