Quotes About Preparation

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

Those who prepare for war get it.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.

The Military don't die. They go to heaven to join god's army and prepare for armageddon.

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.

If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.