If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
All warfare is based on deception.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.