Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
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.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
A war between Europeans is a civil 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.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.