Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

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

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 there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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