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Quotes About Combat

There's nothing like going to real live UFC events. It's unbelievable.
~ Frankie Edgar
I'm going to take Barrera out in devastating style with unbelievably hard shots. He's tailor-made for me, and I will fit him with a suit to wear on the canvas.
~ Naseem Hamed
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
~ Winston Churchill
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
~ Robert Jordan, To the Blight
The brazen throat of war.
~ John Milton
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Victory is the main object in war.
~ Sun Tzu
I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.
~ Greg Proops
It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.
~ Nacho Figueras
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.
~ Barack Obama
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
~ Virginia Woolf
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
~ Thomas Jefferson
we train for war and fight to win.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
~ Brian Stann
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.
~ Charles Tilly
Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.
~ Arthur Desmond
We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
~ Andy Rooney