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

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

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.

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

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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

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

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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.

War is over ... If you want it.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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