It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.