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“It is quite remarkable,” Balck once noted, “that most people believe that attack costs more casualties. Do not even think about it; attack is the less costly operation. . . . Nothing incurs higher casualties than an unsuccessful defense.
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“What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey.” “If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“If the Germans come’, Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, ‘we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.”
― The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–40
― The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–40
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