Never was anything great achieved without danger

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

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

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.

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

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.