Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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.

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.

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.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.