महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha. against attack but should, if possible, break the power of your enemy by attacking him and rendering him incapable of doing you harm. Help the weak by all means, do justice to all but also do justice to yourself and to those who depend on you and whom, it is your duty, so far as possible, to protect from present or future attacks. Depriving enemies of the power of doing you harm is doing nothing more than protecting yourself. Failure to do so, whether in obedience to teachings of false philosophy, or owing to indolence or weakness, is failure to do your duty. The adoption by the Hindus of the foolish and futile policy of limiting their activities to defending them- selves when attacked, resulted in their subjugation in the 12th and the 16th centuries A.D. ; for they had failed to learn the lesson that history teaches to all nations, and Indian history so emphatically, to the Hindus. 204