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

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

All warfare is based on deception.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

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