“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight” 

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.” 

“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.” 

“who wishes to fight must first count the cost” 

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” 

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

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

Fight till the last gasp.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

“The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.” 

“What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.”

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.