The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good read more

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert read more

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of read more

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have read more

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.