When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

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

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare