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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

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

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

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