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

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

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

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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

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.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

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