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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

All warfare is based on deception.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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

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

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.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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