All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
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.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
