The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The power of the sword, say the minority... is in the hands of Congress.
Tench Coxe

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
John Lothrop Motley

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Sholem Asch

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle

The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
George Rogers Clark

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Menander

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
Alexander Cockburn

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
Andrei A. Gromyko

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
Giuseppe Garibaldi