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 earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.