If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

The more the state plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- Mōri Motonari

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- Zhuge Liang

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- Edward, the Black Prince

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- Joan of Arc