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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.