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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.