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

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.

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.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.