"След всяка война
някой трябва да разтреби.

"Край и начало

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.

Each man is a little war.

To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

إدراك المرء لكونه في حالة حرب ومن ثم تتهدده الأخطار يجعل من تسليم كل السلطات لحفنة صغيرة من الناس أمراً طبيعياً وشرطاً محتوماً للبقاء على قيد الحياة.

I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it.

War: first, one hopes to win;
then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;
in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.