As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
“I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.”
“A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.”