It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.