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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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.

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

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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