more grievous than the counter use of a lance.), “The tongue is mightier than the blade.”(Euripides) , “In the face of weapons of war, my songs avail as much as doves in the face of eagles”, “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 1,000 bayonets, “That the pencil will ultimately defeat the gunman, and that one pencil when broken will become two, or that every gun will find itself opposed by many pens.” And finally it is worth noting that what Edward Bulwer-Lytton really said in 1839 “The rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Behold the arch-enchanter’s wand! Itself a nothing. But taking sorcery from the master-hand, to paralyze the Caesars, and to strike the loud earth breathless! Take away the sword: States