A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

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

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.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.