There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

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

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.