Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.