I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to FRONT only the ESSENTIAL facts of LIFE, and see if I COULD not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not LIVED.

If you KNOW the ENEMY and know yourself you NEED not fear the results of a hundred battles.

National armies FIGHT nations, royal armies fight their like, the FIRST OBEY a mob, always demented and the second a KING, generally sane.

This WORLD of ours... must avoid BECOMING a community of dreadful FEAR and HATE, and be, INSTEAD, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

I don't KNOW what EFFECT these MEN will have upon the ENEMY, but, by GOD, they frighten me.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the CHIEF HARM of ARROGANCE. It interferes with a person's MAIN task in life - becoming a better person.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you WOULD LIKE them to go.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their PRIDE, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread US. Fear is the beginning of WISDOM.

The most important THING, in ANYTHING you do, is always trying your hardest, because EVEN if you try your hardest and it's not as GOOD as you'd hoped, you STILL have that sense of not letting yourself down.

I GREW up like a neglected WEED - IGNORANT of LIBERTY, having no EXPERIENCE of it.

The BACKBONE of SURPRISE is fusing SPEED with SECRECY.

There is no crueler TYRANNY than that which is perpetuated under the SHIELD of LAW and in the NAME of JUSTICE.