A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

War is over ... If you want it.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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