The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
War is over ... If you want it.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.