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“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
― Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”
― Euclid, Euclid's Elements

“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Fascism is a religious concept.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Arts like carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher than music, which for the most part is mere guess-work.”
― Plato, Philebus