War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

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

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.