Prachanda: To take up weapons is just a form of politics.
拿起枪杆子只是一种政治方式。The party had also reaffirmed its peace and development policy and that it would continue to bear arms and defend its territory.
党重申和平与发展的政策，将继续紧握枪杆子和捍卫自己的领土。Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
如果谁说笔杆子比枪杆子更犀利的话，那他肯定没遭遇过自动武器There is a bust of Jiang Qing in the shape of a rifle (power comes out of the barrel of a gun, said Chairman Mao).
有一个步枪形状的江青半身像（毛主席说枪杆子里出政权）。An eternal truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun!
一条千古不变的真理：枪杆子里面出政权！In the breakdown of the KMT-CPC cooperation, in 1927 Mao Zedong made the situation "in the barrel of a gun out of power" argument.
在国共合作破裂后，1927年毛泽东这一情况提出“枪杆子里出政权”的论调。Little wonder, then, that so much of central Asia feels uneasily unstable; peace is largely kept via a gun.
难怪那么多中亚国家不安地感到不稳定；和平在很大程度上是靠枪杆子来维持的。The United States must be a nation governed by laws, not by guns .
新生的美利坚必须是被法律统治而不是枪杆子统治的国家。Our government is trigger-happy. It took over the power by violence so it never hesitates to suppress people' uprising by violence.
我们的政府最喜欢枪杆子，这个政府靠暴力夺取了政权，所以也就会毫不犹豫地用暴力来镇压人民。