Quotes About Strategy

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The soft underbelly of the Axis.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

General Fuller ignored in this theory the lessons later learned by those same Allies against Nazi Germany and Japan.

The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they'll settle for a puppy every time.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic.

battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means.

Chinese and Russian support prolonged the war, making it impossible for the United States to win.