Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
“who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War should be the only study of a prince. he should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something.
The slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the vietnam war. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
Mankind must put and end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.