What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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.

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

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

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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.

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.