The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

I think it's a war for imperialist conquest. I think it's morally wrong to be going in there and be killing hundreds of thousands under false pretenses.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.