Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
All warfare is based on deception.
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.
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.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
