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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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.