No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture murder expulsion displacement bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

This war differs from other wars in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people and must make old and young rich and poor feel the hard hand of war.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.