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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.