The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

A general-in-chief should never allow any rest either to the conquerors or to the conquered.