There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

All warfare is based on deception.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.