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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

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

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

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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.

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

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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