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

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.