Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

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.

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