I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
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.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
War is over ... If you want it.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
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.