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You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.