I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

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