In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Chief of the Army.