War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

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

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.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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