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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.