A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.