Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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.

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

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

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