Machiavelli — "Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

"Whence it may be noted that in taking a state the conqueror must arrange to commit all injuries at once and follow them up every day, so that by not repeating them he may be able to assure men and win…"

"Nature creates few men brave, industry makes many."

"A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands."

"The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good arms there m…"

"And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order…"