Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

You cannot treat with all the world at once.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.