Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

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