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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

All warfare is based on deception.

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.

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 very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.