Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

War is over ... If you want it.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.