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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

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

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.