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

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.