To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

If you want peace, prepare for the war.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.

Valor is superior to number.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.