It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Never was anything great achieved without danger
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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
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 isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
