When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.
A true man hates no one.
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
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.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
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