All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.

If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon…

...any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of max…

Major, we didn't take Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose …