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

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.