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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

All warfare is based on deception.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.