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Quotes About Strength

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?
~ Sun Tzu
Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.
~ Sun Tzu
Fight to the last gasp.
~ William Shakespeare
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
~ Alexander Pope
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
~ Lech Walesa
If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
~ Lauryn Hill
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
~ Walt Whitman
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
~ William Shakespeare
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
~ Julian Grenfell
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
~ Ezra Pound
Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany
~ Adolf Hitler
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
~ Ani DiFranco
Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.
~ Arthur Desmond
Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!
~ Charles Lee
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
~ Bertrand Russell
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
~ Leif Enger
The war against terrorism is one we must win.
~ Lisa Murkowski