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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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

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

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

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

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.