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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.