Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

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

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.

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?