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

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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.

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.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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