There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

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

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.

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

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.