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

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.

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.

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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