Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

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.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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