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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

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I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
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Beginning Disaster Discussion Mistake War
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
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Democracy Election Failure Fair Office Quite
For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
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Man Natural Respect Way
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Example History Teaching
Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
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Design Hope Man Misery Success
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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Courage Failure Need Sense
knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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Brave Enemy Freedom Happiness Heart Secret
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
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Desire Habit People Subject Thinking Trust
He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.
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Difficult Graduation Himself School Success
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Equality Power Question Right Strong Suffering Weakness World
Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Adversity Avoid Chance End Greatness Security Strict
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
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Admire Court Himself Man Nature Remark
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War

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