Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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 very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
All warfare is based on deception.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.