Military quotes and sayings
George Patton 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.
George Patton quotes
If a man does his best, what else is there?
George Patton quotes
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George Patton quotes
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George Patton quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton quotes
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George Patton quotes
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George Patton quotes
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George Patton quotes
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
George Patton quotes
Pressure makes diamonds.
George Patton quotes
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
George Patton quotes
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
George Patton quotes
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
George Patton quotes
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?
Winston Churchill quotes
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill quotes
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill quotes
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
Winston Churchill quotes
The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Rebecca West quotes
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Will Rogers quotes
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.
Albert Einstein quotes
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Anon quotes
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
Boake Carter quotes
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Gary Wills quotes
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Henry Louis Mencken quotes
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Albert Einstein quotes
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.
Alexander Haig quotes
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Benjamin Franklin quotes
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Desiderius Erasmus quotes
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
George Clemenceau quotes
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Fridtjof Nansen quotes
War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Jean-Paul Sartre quotes
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
Mao Zedong quotes
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong quotes
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong quotes
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong quotes
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong quotes
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Zedong quotes
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
Douglas MacArthur quotes
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur quotes
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Douglas MacArthur quotes
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Mark Twain quotes
That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
Albert Camus quotes
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Einstein quotes
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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Sun Tzu quotes
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu quotes
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu quotes
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
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