If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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.

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

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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.

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

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.