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

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.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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