Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

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

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

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

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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.