"A general-in-chief should ask himself several times..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.”

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

“Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes”

“We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.”

“We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.”

“In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.”

“Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.”

“Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.”

“Never mistake motion for progress.”