There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

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.

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.

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

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