The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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

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

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.

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

All warfare is based on deception.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.