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Quotes
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin
Carl Sagan
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the …
AJP Taylor
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a great war, the only …
Homer
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Wartime Propaganda Slogan During World War II
Loose lips [might] sink ships.
Sowar Sohan Singh, WWI
When World War I consumed Europe, its industrialized destruction was on such a scale that it seemed only comparison …
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at best barbarism. . . . Its glory is all moonshine. It is only these who have …
BH Liddell Hart
A professional soldier is rarely a professional strategist.
USJCS
Military strategy is the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to secure the objectives …
BH Liddell Hart
{Strategy is} the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy.
Bernard Brodie, Military Strategist
Thus far, while the chief purpose of the military establishment had been to win wars, after the advent of …
General George S. Patton (to Rommel)
Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book.
General Omar Bradley to General Patton
I do this job because I am trained to do it; you do it because you love it.
Theodore Ropp
The most durable reason for reading military history is simply 'because it's fun'.
(Source Unknown)
Wellington would open his officers' calls with the statement that he expected them to be gentlemen and officers 'in …
Sir John Winthrop Hackett
The military life, whether for sailor, soldier, or airman, is a good life. The human qualities it demands include …
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Duty, Honor, Country. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what …
Lt Gen Hubert Worthington
An Officer should be comely, spratly and above all else, confident in his own dress and bearing.
He …
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a …
Clausewitz
There are Field Marshals who would not have shone at the head of a cavalry regiment, and vice versa.
US Army
Military Leadership is a process by which a soldier influences others to accomplish the mission.
Lieutenant General William Pagonis
Owning the facts is a prerequisite to leadership. But there are millions of technocrats out there with lots of …
US Grant
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail.
TE Lawrence
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books; but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across …
Edward Gibbon
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
FW Nietzsche
I see many soldiers; could I but see as many warriors!
General George S. Patton
War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct and ruthless man to wage war.
John A Logan
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming …
Graham Greene
The novelist and the intelligence officer have this in common: each must feel his way in the dark.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin
Carl Sagan
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
AJP Taylor
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a great war, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one (or to fight it on a limited scale)
Homer
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Wartime Propaganda Slogan During World War II
Loose lips [might] sink ships.
Sowar Sohan Singh, WWI
When World War I consumed Europe, its industrialized destruction was on such a scale that it seemed only comparison with a natural disaster could capture it. In the letters written home by Indian soldiers on the Western Front, the scale of devastation was conveyed through extended similes. Sowar Sohan …
William Tecumseh Sherman
War is at best barbarism. . . . Its glory is all moonshine. It is only these who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
BH Liddell Hart
A professional soldier is rarely a professional strategist.
USJCS
Military strategy is the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to secure the objectives of national policy by the application of force, or threat of force.
BH Liddell Hart
{Strategy is} the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy.
Bernard Brodie, Military Strategist
Thus far, while the chief purpose of the military establishment had been to win wars, after the advent of nuclear weapons, its chief purpose was to avert them.
General George S. Patton (to Rommel)
Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book.
General Omar Bradley to General Patton
I do this job because I am trained to do it; you do it because you love it.
Theodore Ropp
The most durable reason for reading military history is simply 'because it's fun'.
(Source Unknown)
Wellington would open his officers' calls with the statement that he expected them to be gentlemen and officers 'in that order'.
Sir John Winthrop Hackett
The military life, whether for sailor, soldier, or airman, is a good life. The human qualities it demands include fortitude, integrity, self-respect, personal loyalty to other persons, and the surrender of the advantage of the individual to the common good... This is good company. Anyone can spend his life …
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Duty, Honor, Country. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Lt Gen Hubert Worthington
An Officer should be comely, spratly and above all else, confident in his own dress and bearing.
He should, where possible, eat a small piece of meat each morning with molasses and beans.
He should air himself gracefully when under fire and never place himself in a position …
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
Clausewitz
There are Field Marshals who would not have shone at the head of a cavalry regiment, and vice versa.
US Army
Military Leadership is a process by which a soldier influences others to accomplish the mission.
Lieutenant General William Pagonis
Owning the facts is a prerequisite to leadership. But there are millions of technocrats out there with lots of facts in their quivers and little leadership potential. In many cases, what they are missing is empathy. No one is a leader who can’t put himself or herself in the …
US Grant
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail.
TE Lawrence
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books; but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test for generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought, practicing the stroke so often that at the crisis it is …
Edward Gibbon
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
FW Nietzsche
I see many soldiers; could I but see as many warriors!
General George S. Patton
War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct and ruthless man to wage war.
John A Logan
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
Graham Greene
The novelist and the intelligence officer have this in common: each must feel his way in the dark.