Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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