Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Morality is contraband in war. 

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

When warmongers offer to negotiate for peace, it is called diplomacy.

I always say that people should not rush to change religion. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

There was a time when we could find jokers only in circus. Now we can find them everywhere.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

No force on earth can dislodge democracy and rule forever.