Forces rule the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, for in every war they kill you a new way.

When the white man came, we had the land and they had the Bibles. Now they have the land and we have the Bibles.

When the Pilgrims landed they fell on their knees and then they fell on the aborigines.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom’s shield, And heaven is shining o’er us.

When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurl’d; Here once the embattl’d farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.