No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.
But time and surprise are the two most vital elements in war.
The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
Reinforcement is being right.
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.