Who said the quote, "The pen is mightier than the sword"?
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Is correct. He is also famous for the Opening "It was a dark and stormy night" He was both an Auther and  politician. You can find many of his Novels online @ http://www.edward-bulwer-lytton.info/
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Quotes are said not written.\nThe question should be "Who said......" NOT   "Who Wrote"
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It was originally said by John Kenneth Galbraith, though his quote was "Never underestimte the power of very stupid people in large groups." Robert Heinlein said something similar. "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."\n\nThe exact quote that you have above was said by Homer Simpson on an episode of The Simpsons, paraphrasing Galbraith.
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I couldn't find the quote, but I found a site with a bunch of similiar quotes.\n\nhttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/War
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Abraham Lincoln\n\n"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
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Who said that?\n\n\nHello!
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this website i checked said american proverb came up with this quote it was the only answer icould find i checked quite a few sites they also qouted Leo Rosten and Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Tao Te Ching quotes\n     Popularity:\nCollect your favorite quotes in your online Quotations Book for FREE!\nPlease Register!\n\nclose      “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
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"Hard work has a future payoff, but laziness pays off now"\n\nThat's that best quote because it's so damn true and funny.
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Actually, it was:\n\nNever give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.\n\nWinston Churchill
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The whole quote is: Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.  ~William Temple
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.  Friedreich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Hello Cordelia, so many to choose from, this is my favourite.\n\n“Give a child a hammer and everything becomes a nail."\n\nThis quotation comes from Abraham Kaplan's Law of the Instrument and it is often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain. It is mentioned in Donne Colton et. al vs. New York Hospital in 1976.\n\n\nIdioms, Quotes and Sayings.\n\nGOOD SITES WITH ORIGINS.\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/\n\nhttp://eleaston.com/ety-site.html#ety\n\nhttp://www.wordorigins.org/\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/100/\n\nhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ \n\nhttp://www.wordwizard.com/\n\nhttp://www.quotationsbook.com/ \n\nhttp://www.litquotes.com/\n\nhttp://www.giga-usa.com/\n\nhttp://www.boardofwisdom.com/\n\nhttp://www.quoteworld.org/ \n\nhttp://www.rockwisdom.com/\n\nhttp://www.great-quotes.com/\n\nhttp://quotations.home.worldnet.att.net/\n\nhttp://www.quotationspage.com/\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/quotes/quotations.php\n\nAllGreatQuotes - Famous Quotes and Quotations\n\nWelcome to Allgreatquotes.com! Probably the best free quotations site in the world. Thousands of great quotes carefully researched, collected and verified for your pleasure. Regularly updated and new content added. Visit often and bookmark us.\n\nhttp://www.allgreatquotes.com/index.shtml\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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I like these two together, \n\n"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories. "\n\n"One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful. "
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Homer...the poet, philosopher, auther...not the simpson. and the whole quote is \n\nControl your mind or it will control you. Put it in reins, cast it in chains