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.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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.

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.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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