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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

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

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.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.