“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”
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As quoted in Good Words (1862), Volume 3. p. 170.
Also quoted in Martyr of science, Royal Scottish Museum (1984), p. 80.

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”

Video acceptance speech of the D.W. Griffiths Lifetime Achievement Award (1999) - video and transcript http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/kubrick-dga.html

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1936/may/06/foreign-office in the House of Commons (6 May 1936)
1930s

Speech at the Washington Navy Yard (16 September 1942)
1940s

As quoted in "Military air power : the CADRE digest of air power opinions and thoughts", compiled by Charles M. Westenhoff

Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp. 379–383.
Collected Works
Source: Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825), p. 66