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

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.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Never was anything great achieved without danger