Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

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?

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

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

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

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.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.