Thursday, August 31, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“It frets me not a little that the poor soldier that hourly ventures life should want their due that well deserve rather reward. . . .”
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“No danger appears, and I shall not make wars, but arm for defence, understanding how much of my treasure is spent already in victuals for ships at sea and soldiers at land.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“You may use speeches to terrify him with extremity of punishment if he shall conceal anything; as you see cause, you may also comfort him with hope, so as it be not in our name, he will utter the truth of every person, without regard to any, though he may think they be in place [...]
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“Do not suppose that I am seeking what belongs to others. God forbid. I seek only that which is mine own. But be sure that I will take good heed of the sword which threatens me with destruction, nor think that I am so craven-spirited as to endure a wrong, or to place myself at [...]
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“[A]ll those means of leagues, alliances, and foreign strengths I quite forsook and gave myself to seek for truth without respect, reposing my assured stay in God’s most mighty grace with full assurance. Thus I began, thus I proceed, and thus I hope to end.”
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“You that be lieutenants and gentlemen of command in your countries [regions within the nation], I would require to take care and special order that the people be well and thoroughly armed, and that in readiness upon all present occasions. You that be judges and justices of peace, I command and straitly charge that you [...]
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“[T]he words of superiors, as Demosthenes* said, are as the books of their inferiors, and the example of a prince has the force of law.”
*Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) was a Greek statesman and orator.
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
“Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.”