A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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.

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

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

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

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