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Quotes About Strength

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
~ Hernando Cortes
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
~ Thomas Paine
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.
~ Sun Tzu
The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.
~ Stormie Omartian
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.
~ Bob Marley
Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
~ Sun Tzu
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
~ Merle Haggard
When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.
~ Ray Hudson
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
~ William Lyon MacKenzie
I'm an indestructible master of war.
~ David Draiman
A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
~ Oliver Cromwell
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
~ Edmund Burke
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
~ Sun Tzu
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
~ Ronald Reagan
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
~ Sun Tzu
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
~ George S. Patton
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
~ Sun Tzu
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower