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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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