If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.