War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces that take part in such an abominable business.

The psychological roots of war are, in my opinion, biologically rooted in the aggressive nature of the male creature… Some animals—the bull and the rooster—surpass us in this regard.

I know people in Germany whose private lives are guided by virtually unbounded altruism, but who were awaiting the declaration of unlimited submarine warfare with the greatest impatience… These people must be shown that it is necessary to have consideration for non-Germans as worthy equals, that it is essential to earn the trust of foreign countries, in order to be able to exist, that the goals that one sets for oneself cannot be achieved through force and treachery.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

America is incomparably less endangered by its own Communists than by the hysterical hunt for the few Communists that are here.

The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: Criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.

The German calamity of years ago repeats itself: people acquiesce without resistance and align themselves with the forces of evil.

If I were to be president, sometimes I would have to say to the Israeli people things they would not like to hear.

I hardly ever felt as alienated from people as I do right now… The worst is that nowhere is there anything with which one can identify. Brutality and lies are everywhere.