A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.