Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, Military Quotes

The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Military Quotes

We are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn't just flow from our extraordinary military but also flows from the strength in our ideals and our principles and our values.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Military Quotes , America Quotes

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Communication Quotes

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Military Quotes , Crowds Quotes

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Men Quotes

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country Quotes , Military Quotes

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Agreement Quotes

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Lakein Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Military Quotes

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Military Quotes , Iraq Quotes

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Military Quotes

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Fighting Quotes

It is not the critic who counts

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Courage Quotes , Military Quotes

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Military Quotes , Men Quotes

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Military Quotes , Size Quotes