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Famous quotes by Soldiers

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
Moshe Dayan
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"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people"
Heinz Guderian, Soldier
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"I cannot command winds and weather"
Horatio Nelson, Soldier
Horatio Nelson
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"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign"
William Westmoreland, Soldier
William Westmoreland
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"Discipline equals freedom"
Jocko Willink, Soldier
Jocko Willink
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"The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility"
Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier
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"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil"
Claus von Stauffenberg, Soldier
Claus von Stauffenberg
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"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present"
Claus von Stauffenberg, Soldier
Claus von Stauffenberg
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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way"
John Paul Jones, Soldier
John Paul Jones
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"My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary"
John Charles Fremont, Soldier
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"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years, and then raise head to face Japan"
Yuan Shikai, Soldier
Yuan Shikai
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Where a man can live, he can also live well"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory"
George S. Patton, Soldier
George S. Patton
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"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
George S. Patton, Soldier
George S. Patton
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"War is hell"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
Douglas MacArthur
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"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
Douglas MacArthur
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
Douglas MacArthur
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
Douglas MacArthur
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"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it"
Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
Robert Baden-Powell
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"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living"
Omar N. Bradley, Soldier
Omar N. Bradley
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"To secure peace is to prepare for war"
Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier
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"The engine of the tank is a weapon, just as the main-gun"
Heinz Guderian, Soldier
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