I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

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 safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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