Only By Coming To Grips With Difficulty

Never Relinquish The Initiative.

The Desire Of Privilege And The Taste Of Equality Are The Dominant And Contradictory Passions Of The French Of All Times.

Whereas Ordinary Officers Must Be Content With Behaving Correctly In Front Of Their Men, The Great Leaders Have Always Carefully Stage-managed Their Effects.

The Perfection Preached In The Gospels Never Yet Built An Empire. Every Man Of Action Has A Strong Dose Of Egotism, Pride, Hardness, And Cunning.

Today We Are Crushed By The Sheer Weight Of The Mechanized Forces Hurled Against Us, But We Can Still Look To The Future In Which Even Greater Mechanized Forces Will Bring Us Victory. Therein Lies The Destiny Of The World.