Quotes About Warfare

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

It is with artillery that war is made.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.