Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War is over ... If you want it.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
