Quotes About Warfare

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more

We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.

The greatest weapon against the so-called "battle fatigue" is ridicule.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It's the four Ds, Corvus. Dress. Discipline. And dealing death.

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.

O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.