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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

War is over ... If you want it.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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

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

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?