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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.