True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Behold, the arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyze the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!

--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1839) for his play about Cardinal Richelieu