"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe" - Abraham Lincoln

"People should not be afraid of the governments. Governments should be afraid of their people" - Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta

"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood" - George S. Patton

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" - George S. Patton
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him"

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both"

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present"

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived"

"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others"

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared"

"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless"

"The wise man does at once what the foll does finally"

"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt"

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"