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"I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills."
"Beware the military-industrial complex."
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
"Know the enemy and know yourself."
"My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma"
"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."
"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
"The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses."
"I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price."
"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
"There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years."
"You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
