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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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.

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

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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