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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.