No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.