Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

All warfare is based on deception.

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

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

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.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.