There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

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

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

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

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

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