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. 

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. 

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. 

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. 

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Dictators are the most insecure people on earth.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

Morality is contraband in war. 

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.