Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

War is a racket.

All wars are fought for money.

If peace...only had the music and pagaentry of war, there'd be no wars.

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

From "The City of God"

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

from "America Alone"

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

All warfare is based on deception.

The supreme excellence is to subde the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

This quote is attributed to Calgacus in the Roman historian Tacitus' "Agricola."

When people have friends and customers in other lands, they tend to take a dim view of their government dropping bombs on them.

The Department of Defense is the behemoth...With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire.

Norton First Edition

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...is morally treasonable to the American public.