The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.