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

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.

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.