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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

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

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.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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.

War is over ... If you want it.