Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.
A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.