Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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.