National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. (J. F. C. Fuller)

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

J. F. C. Fuller

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