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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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.

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

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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.

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