Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
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.
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.
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.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Never was anything great achieved without danger
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
