War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
All warfare is based on deception.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
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.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
War is over ... If you want it.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
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.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.