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.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

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

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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