The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.