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

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

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.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

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

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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.