The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
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.
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.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
