Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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.