Quotes About Warfare

You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot

severing Sherman's life line he would provoke him into rashness or oblige him to retreat.

Superpower warfare is the real, if sardonic, version of class warfare: the less well-off fight wars instigated by the well-off, well-educated, and well-represented.

This is your sword. You press the pointy end into the enemy. Try not to let him make eye contact with you and remember, he spits invisible poison. (Thorn)

She's special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own swords. (Deimos)

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny

The musket made the infantryman and the infantryman made the democrat.

Writing from Belgium in the midst of the war, John Quincy Adams predicted that the laws of civilized warfare would likely collapse in the face of Anglo-American armed conflict. "No wars are so cruel and unrelenting as civil wars," he wrote to his wife, "and unfortunately every war between Britain and America must and will be a civil war.

Some 2,500 of Washington's Continentals perished that winter, roughly one in five of those who had entered Valley Forge just before Christmas. (In contrast, one in thirty American soldiers died in combat in the Battle of the Bulge, one of the nation's costliest engagements in World War II.)

Independence may have been declared in 1776, but it still had to be won. Years of bloody warfare followed. The death toll was staggering, for soldiers and noncombatants. Of all the wars in the history of the United States, only the Civil War witnessed a greater percentage of deaths among those who soldiered. The ratio of

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.

It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

My leg hurts," the soldier whined. "Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.