It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.