True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it! (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Richelieu 2.2) "The pen is mightier than the sword." This quotation from the 1839 historical play Richelieu by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton