Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is over ... If you want it.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.