War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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