If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

War is over ... If you want it.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.