There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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.

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

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.