Remote Quotes

It's inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor to the kings and queens of history.

A military maxim, which ought never to be neglected, is to assemble your cantonments at the point which is most remote and best sheltered from the enemy, especially when he makes his appearance unexpectedly. You will then have time to unite the whole army before he can attack you.

War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities.