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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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