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

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

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

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