Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

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.