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  • To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

  • Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

    Military   War   Eye  
  • Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

    Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated
  • Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

    Military   Army   Warfare  
  • Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

    Ulysses S. Grant (1998). “Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 2 of 2”, p.318, Digital Scanning Inc
  • There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

    Prayer   Military   Army  
    "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.
  • Get there first with the most men.

  • Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

    Leadership   War   Men  
    Cavalry Journal, September 1933.
  • I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

    Peace   War   Hate  
    Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.
  • I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

  • We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

    Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796
  • No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

    Country   Military   War  
    Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"
  • They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

    War   Military   Marine  
  • It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

    Peace   Fun   Military  
    "General: It's 'fun to shoot some people'". edition.cnn.com. February 4, 2005.
  • I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

    Military   Fall   Home  
  • As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

    Art   Military   Men  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  • I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?

    Military   War   Fighting  
    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  • I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  • Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

    Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941
  • Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

    Military   Mistake   Army  
  • What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on
  • The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961
  • There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  • Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.

    Kings   Military   War  
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