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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.