The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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