Daron Malakian Quotes

War is the trade of Kings.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

One bad general is worth two good ones.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.