Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

War is over ... If you want it.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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