Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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

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

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.