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

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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