I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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.

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

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

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.