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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

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.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.