The Galaxy of Quotes

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Pressure makes diamonds.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.