Either war is obsolete, or men are.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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.
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.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
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.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
