Wars And Battles Quotes

• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  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.

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Military

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Inspiration

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Motivational Sports, Peace, Military

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  H. G. Wells

  Peace, War, Remembrance

  H. G. Wells (2016). “You Can't Be Too Careful”, p.9, Read Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Army

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Death, Memorial Day, Plato

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• If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Warrior

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• When after many battles past,
  Both tir'd with blows,
  make peace at last,
  What is it, after all, the people get?
  Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  War, Blow, Past

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• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

  George S. Patton

  Indulge In, Competition, Battle

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Peace, Military, War

  Epitoma Rei Militaris bk. 3, prologue See Aristotle 4

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, War, Fighting

  "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty" by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• Battle... brings out all that is best.

  George S. Patton

  Bad Ass, Indulge In, Competition

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Art, Fear

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, War

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Memorial Day, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Adventure

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, War, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.40, e-artnow

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• I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, House, Cooking

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