total-war

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

"A man can die but once."

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

"Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards."

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."

"Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon."

"The prince must be a fox... to recognize the traps and a lion to frighten the wolves."

"Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone."

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War."

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players."

"Go, bid the soldiers shoot."

"Nothing is to be feared but fear."

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

"If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great."

"Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?"

"Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"Men should either be treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injures ** for heavy ones they cannot."

"The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people."

"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."

"To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n."

"Will no one revenge me of the injuries I have sustained from one turbulent priest?"

"Luck is the residue of design."

"If some among them are innocent, it is expedient that they should be assayed like gold in the furnace and purged by proper judicial examination."

"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."

"I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways."

"Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."

"Storm clouds gather over Europe, mistrust and rivalries between realms threaten to break and flood the world in a tide of Total War."

"Kill them all, God will recognise his own."

"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention."

"The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears."

"Fortune favours the audacious."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless."

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."

"Nothing good ever comes of violence."

"War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

"The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises."

"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil."

"The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers."

"Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised."

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

"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought... but war and its organisation and discipline."

"One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces."

"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles."

"Strike up the drum and march courageously."

"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."