A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Pelle, the Conqueror.