You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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

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.

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

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

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.

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.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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