Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.