The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

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

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.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

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.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.