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

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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.

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

Never was anything great achieved without danger

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

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

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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

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

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

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

All warfare is based on deception.