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Nothing More Enhances Authority Than Silence. It Is The Crowning Virtue Of The Strong, The Refuge Of The Weak, The Modesty Of The Proud, The Pride Of The Humble, The Prudence Of The Wise, And The Sense Of Fools. To Speak Is To . . . Dissipate One's Strength; Whereas What Action Demands Is Concentration. Silence Is A Necessary Preliminary To The Ordering Of One's Thoughts.

I Feel Not A Person But An Instrument Of Destiny.

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

No Policy Is Worth Anything Outside Of Reality.

Faced With Crisis, The Man Of Character Falls Back On Himself. He Imposes His Own Stamp Of Action, Takes Responsibility For It, Makes It His Own.