A war between Europeans is a civil war.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

War is over ... If you want it.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.