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
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
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.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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.