States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

There is no 'We all are different' theory. That's another condolence or compensation for 'Everybody is common, normal and indifferent'.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.