Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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

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.