If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.