Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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