Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
Imagination rules the world.
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
A good sketch is better than a long speech.
A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
Ability is noting without opportunity.
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
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