The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
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.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
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.
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation
Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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