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

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.

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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