Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
War is over ... If you want it.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
