The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.