In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
We are either kings or pawns of men
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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