Quotes About Warfare

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Books about colonization in early America more typically dwell on themes of politics, trade, religion, demography, and warfare. Without discounting the importance of these topics (for each has a place here) and with no intention of offering a monocausal explanation for complex events, this book argues that sometimes mundane decisions about how to feed pigs or whether or not to build a fence also could affect the course of history.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

This defence can only be achieved by killing or disabling the enemy.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

….it was a brave man's fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

To me death is better than the defensive.

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

A great doctor kills more people than a great general.