Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

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

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

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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