I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

War is over ... If you want it.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

War isnt declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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.

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

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

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

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

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.