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

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

War is over ... If you want it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.