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

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.

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

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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.

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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.