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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

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

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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

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

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