War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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.

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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