All warfare is based on deception.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.