When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
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 no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
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.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
