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

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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

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