Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars