What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

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

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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