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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

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

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.

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

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

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