To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
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.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
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.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.