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.

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

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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

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

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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.