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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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.

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.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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.

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.