Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

War is over ... If you want it.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

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