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

All warfare is based on deception.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

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

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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.

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.