If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

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

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.