Military Quotes - Page 10

• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Character, Men

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Army, Stronger, Campaigns

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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• When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
  But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.

  Robert Kagan

  Opposites, Nails, Hammers

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• Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Wealth

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• The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Son, Effort

  Carl von Clausewitz (2006). “Selections from On war”

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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• So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Persistence, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Odds Against You, Victory

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Teaching, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Winning, Games

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• Don't spread patriotism too thin.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spread

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

  Herodotus

  Peace, Father, War

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Army, Levers, Resistance

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Two

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• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

  Winston Churchill

  Battle, Demand, Great War

  "Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

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  War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, War, Bad Ass

  "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!

  John J. Pershing

  Marine, Rifles, World

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Democracies Have, People, Democracy

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• The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Country, Lovers, Conqueror

  "On War (Book 6)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Dog, Cat

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• A man should be upright, not kept upright.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (5), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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