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

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.