"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
"It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families."
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get."
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."