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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.