The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Life is warfare.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

War is a contagion.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.