Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.