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

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

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

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.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

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

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

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