To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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 don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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 forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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.

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

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