Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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