The Military Quotation Book: More than 1,100 of the Best Quotations About War, Leadership, Courage, Victory, and Defeat
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Revised and expanded to include over 1,200 quotations, The Military Quotation Book brings together the wisdom of fallen heroes and living politicians, honored statesman and rebellious writers--quoting official edicts as well as off-the-record remarks.
Among the most authoritative--and the most opinionated--are:
*General Douglas MacArthur--"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
*Winston Churchill--"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities."
*Stalin--"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
*Voltaire--"An admiral has to be put to death now and then to encourage the others."
*Dwight D. Eisenhower--"Nothing is easy in war."
*Franklin D. Roosevelt--"A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
For everyone who loves the military, for history buffs, speechmakers, veterans, and anyone in active military service, The Military Quotation Book is a loaded canon of memorable expressions.
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The Military Quotation Book - James Charlton
WARS AND WHY THEY START
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
ADMIRAL ARLEIGH A. BURKE
Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!
JOHN PARKER
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.
MCGEORGE BUNDY
It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man … it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
SIGMUND FREUD
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. MENCKEN
War is a biological necessity.
FRIEDRICH A. J. VON BERNHARDI, German cavalry general
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER, War
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINI
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. FORSTER
CAUSES OF WAR
Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired.
MAJOR K. K. V. CASEY
We all muddled into war.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
THUCYDIDES
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively personal,
arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
B. H. LIDDELL HART
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
MARTIN VAN CREVELD, Israeli military historian
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
JOSEPH HELLER, Catch-22
WILL TO WIN
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win