When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
All warfare is based on deception.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.