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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

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.

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

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

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