When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

There is nothing they [Russian leaders] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!