The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

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

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Solutions are not the answer.

An army marches on its stomach.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.

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

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

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.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

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

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.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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.