Quotes About Warfare

Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

War is a defeat for humanity.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Countries are making nuclear weapons like there is no tomorrow.

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.