All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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.

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.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.