States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.