There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
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.
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.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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 just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
