Quotes About Warfare

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

War is the business of barbarians.

The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

More die in flight than in battle.