Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
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.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
If we don't end war, war will end us.
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.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
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.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.