Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.