You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

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

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.