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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

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

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

There was never a bad peace or a good war.