There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

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

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

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.