There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.