Compelled Quotes

The middle road [dynamic conservatism] is a kind of path that is always difficult to defend, or at least requires intelligent explanation to defend, because you get your attacks from both flanks. And no commander going into battle of any kind likes to be compelled to fight on both flanks.

An army should have but a single line of operations which it should carefully preserve, and should abandon only when compelled by imperious circumstances.

War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.