There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
War is over ... If you want it.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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.
