Julius Caesar War Quotations

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. [Lat., Jus belli, ut qui vicissent, iis quos vicissent, quemadmodum vellent, imperarent.]

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.