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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

War is over ... If you want it.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

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.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

All warfare is based on deception.

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

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.

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.