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

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

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

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

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.