"Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft."

The Red Army must keep its powder dry and be in constant mobilization and preparedness.

As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:

I stay ready from getting ready. So, I'm always ready.

Conservatives have always been ready to use the power of the State.

Every state must be aware that its peace, its security rests on its own sword.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

Radical goals must be kept in sight at all times.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

Let the mind, then, stand in readiness, and let it never fear whatever must be, let it always expect whatever may be.