War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

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

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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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