It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

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

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

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

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.