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

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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