The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.