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

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

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

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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