Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing to take the risk.

What you don't get to do is to remain neutral.

I know the vision you dreamed of for this nation and I know I may have destroyed it. But my first obligation is not to the unborn people of this country's future, but the people who are suffering now, who pass their days in fear because of the war that you have brought to their doorstep.

War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.

Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.

Darling, people pay you less attention when you don't leave a trail of bodies in your wake.

Underdogs can often find a way out, but not always. Particularly not if the side with the upper hand has anticipated, as well as is possible given the information at hand, everything could go wrong.

Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.

She'd been so stupid to once think that if she ended the Federation then she'd ended the hurting. War didn't end, not so cleanly - it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new wounds.