War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

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.

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

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

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.