All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

War is over ... If you want it.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars