To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

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

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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

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

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

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