To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Do not buy fertile fields for your children and grandchildren.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

親賢臣、遠小人、此先漢所以興隆也。親小人、遠賢臣、此後漢所以傾頽也。

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

A conqueror must wield both the sword and the law.

-- The Turco-Mongol conqueror who built an empire fro

He who cannot govern himself cannot govern others.

-- The founder of the Mongol Empire who created histo