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.

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.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

War is over ... If you want it.

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.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.