Famous quotes by Soldiers

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes"

George Crook, Soldier

"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory, I am the most offending soul alive"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says"

George Crook, Soldier

"The Indian is a human being"

George Crook, Soldier

"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"First gain the victory, and then make the best use of it you can"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"No study is possible on the battlefield"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership, because you learn how not to do it, and therefore you learn how to do it"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot"

Pappy Boyington, Soldier

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