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

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

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

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

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.

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

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

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

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