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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

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

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

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

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

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.