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

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.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.