I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

A world without war is not in the cards.

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

God predetermines the pathways.

You never need an invitation to go home.

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.