Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.