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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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.

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

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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