Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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.

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 may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

All warfare is based on deception.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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