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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.