When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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