Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
There is no security. Only opportunity.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war not blots out this alternative.