If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

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