Never was anything great achieved without danger

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

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.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

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.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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