You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.