A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

All warfare is based on deception.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

To be prepared is half the victory.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.