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.

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

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

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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