The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

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

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.