Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.