If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.