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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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.

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

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed