Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.