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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

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

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

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

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

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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