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

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

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

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

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.