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

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

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

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

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.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.