There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

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

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.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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