Cautious Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on…

— Sun Tzu

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped.…

— Sun Tzu

A siege is an act of war.

— Noam Chomsky

“It is better to BESIEGE than to be UNDER SIEGE.”

— Pastor Rod W. Larkins

“We have first seized the front line of trenches, then the second and the third, and our adversary, shut up in his retreat, in…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his…

— Sun Tzu

The followers must feel besieged.

— Umberto Eco

“The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.”

— UNESCO Constitution

“These two misfortunes happen to armies, to become so terrified of the enemy that they are unwilling to attempt any offensive, and so bold…

— Onasander

“All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”

— Sun Tzu