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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

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

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.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Know yourself and you will win all battles.