Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

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

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.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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.