Quotes About Combat

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end

Great battles are won with artillery.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.