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I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.