Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

It's only hubris if I fail.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.