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.

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

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.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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

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

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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