"To ensure victory the troops must have..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”

“The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.”

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

“Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.”

“It must be a peace without victory”

“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”

“Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits”

“No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.”

“Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”