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

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.

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

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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.

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

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.