It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

All warfare is based on deception.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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