Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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.

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

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.