I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769 - 1821

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu, 544BC - 496BC
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von Clausewitz, 1780 - 1831