Quotes About Warfare

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

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

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

My sentence is for open war.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.