Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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