The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

We cannot escape history.

The knowledge of higher leadership can only be acquired by the study of military history and actual experience. There are no hard and fast rules; everything depends on the plans of the general, the condition of the troops, the season of the year, and a thousand other circumstances, which have the effect that no one case will ever resemble another.

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones.