Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

All warfare is based on deception.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.