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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.