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

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

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.

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.

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

All warfare is based on deception.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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.

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

War is over ... If you want it.