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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen.
—Samuel Adams

"The strongest."

-- Alexander the Great, last words, when asked who was to succeed him.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC), History

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus (319 BC - 272 BC), from Plutarch, Lives

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win ithout fighting.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Planning a Siege

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Strategic Assessments

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Dr. David M. Burns

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White (1773 - 1840)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)