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 central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
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.
Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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.
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.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
