If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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.

War is over ... If you want it.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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

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