Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

Every neighbouring state is an enemy and the enemy's enemy is a friend.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

The issue of a battle is the result of an instant, of a thought. There is the advance, with its various combinations, the battle is joined, the struggle goes on a certain time, the decisive moment presents itself, a spark of genius discloses it, and the smallest body of reserves accomplish victory.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.