“If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place”

Superficial goals lead to superficial results.

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.

Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!