It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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.

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

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

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.