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

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.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

War is over ... If you want it.

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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.