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.

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

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.

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

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.