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Quotes About Warfare

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
~ Bertolt Brecht
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
~ Homer
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
~ Plato
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
~ Ahmed Yassin
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
~ John Selden
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
~ Fred Ward
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
~ Aeschylus
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
~ Buffalo Bill
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.
~ Cassandra Clare
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
~ George Washington
They send you to places where bombs explode like jack-in-the-boxes, blowing your friends to pieces before your eyes. Then they punish you when you can't stop thinking about it.
~ Terri Blackstock
then forcing his wife to eat the roasted flesh! Amazingly, two enemies, an English
~ Terry Deary
The lie that women are as capable as men when it comes to warfighting is so inadequate and shameful that it defies common sense. Despite the tremendous liability of placing women in such situations, the supporters of this senseless agenda are incessant in their efforts. Such a liability is seen when a
~ Terry James
From 235, over a period of 50 years, 49 men were proclaimed emperor by different groups of soldiers. We know that at least 25 of them were killed, not counting the three who committed suicide and one who seems to have been struck by lightning. In fact, apart from Gothicus, only one of them is known to have died a natural death – Valerian, who held on to the job for seven years and was safely locked away as a prisoner of the Persians when he expired in 260.
~ Terry Jones
in spiritual warfare. God's power lies in His three warheads: the Word, the Name, and the Blood.
~ Terry Law
the mind is ground zero in spiritual warfare.
~ Terry Law
Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
~ The Book of Joshua 6:21
The wooden wall is your ships.
~ Themistocles