When anger rises, think of the consequences.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
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.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.