Quotes About Warfare

we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12)

documentary The Invisible War (which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and

The women will die just as much as the men will if we bomb ourselves back to the Stone Age. And then we'll be in the the Stone Age. Er. Yeah. And then there will be five thousand years of rebuilding, five thousand years where the only thing that matters is: can you hurt more, can you do more damage, can you instill fear? Yeah? And then the women will win.

VICTRIX CAVSA DIIS PLACVIT SED VICTA PVELLIS

Gentlemen. If you're going to take Vienna, take it.

The principles of war are the same as those of a siege. Fire must be concentrated on one point, and as soon as the breach is made, the equilibrium is broken and the rest is nothing.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.

Perfidious Albion.

Madame Montholon having inquired what troops he considered the best, "Those which are victorious, Madame," replied the Emperor.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

War is the business of barbarians.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.

Get there first with the most men.