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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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

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

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

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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