There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
War is over ... If you want it.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
