Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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.

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

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 was anything great achieved without danger

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.