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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.