It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.