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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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