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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

War is over ... If you want it.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.