I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.