There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
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.
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.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
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.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.