The Jewish Wisdom Database

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Confidence is half the victory.

Who is a hero? The man that turns an enemy into a friend.

When you cannot cut off your enemy's hand, kiss it and make friends with him!

If God favors a man, even his enemy will run to his rescue.

Your enemy's enemy is your friend.

When God is with you, fear not foe!

Wars are not won by heroes.

A hero is only revealed in combat.

Our task today is harder than Moses'; he had only to deliver Israel from one Egypt, we must deliver it from many.

If a man means to kill you, stike first!

Two dogs were bad friends. One day the wolf attacked one of them. Quoth the other: 'If I do not help him today, the wolf will destroy him and tomorrow attack me.' So they joined forces and killed the wolf.

Retreat heralds defeat.

Who behaves as a sheep is devoured by the wolf.

No power has ever won complete and absolute victory.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

By wise counsel you can wage your war.

A time for war and a time for peace.

In a war of defense everyone comes out to fight, even the groom from his chamber and the bride from her bed.

In a war stay where you are, in famine shift your ground!

It is the way of a man to wage war, not the way of a woman.

Because of war, old age creeps up on you. Of Joshua, after waging war with thirty-one kings, it is said: And Joshua became old and stricken in years.

Better overt war than covert peace.

War is a bad and contemptible thing, but people at war are sometimes better than in everyday life.