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

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

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

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.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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.

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.