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

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

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

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

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

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.