Of course, I cannot say what real success we had. The Russians have not told us. Still I imagined that I alone had caused the Russian attack to fail. Perhaps the official account of the Russian War Office will give me details after the war.


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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNER VON BRAUN
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populat...
WERNER VON BRAUN
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Dare to be wrong and to dream.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The sam...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at o...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES
He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER