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I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

All war is deception.

War is over if you want it.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.