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.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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.

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

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

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

War is over ... If you want it.