I’ve heard it a variation on this line a million times, “if you’re going to try to kill the king, you’d better kill the king.” It’s sort of a variation on Napoleon’s “When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.”

Anyone know that actual quote? It’s origins? Etc? And, if you please, I’m having a hard time coping with email flow these days, so if you can keep the completely random smart-ass guesses to a minimum, it’d help me greatly.

Update: So far we’ve got Emerson and Machiavelli as nominees.

Update II: From a reader:

I think it was Clausewitz who said….

“If you wanna BE the man, you’ve got to BEAT the man. Woooooooo!”