Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
War is over ... If you want it.
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.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
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.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
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.