To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
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.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
