Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.

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

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

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