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.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.