Famous quotes by Soldiers

"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man"

George Crook, Soldier

"The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?"

George Crook, Soldier

"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - At the Battle of Copenhagen"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Desperate affairs require desperate measures"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians"

George Crook, Soldier

"If a man consults whether he is to fight when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"War is a profane thing"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"A conqueror is always a lover of peace"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer"

Xenophon, Soldier

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"If you want to be better, get after it"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

"The only easy day was yesterday"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

"But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong"

John Armstrong, Soldier

"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"The more we study the Indian's character, the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"It is too late; now I wish I could live"

John Buford, Soldier

"I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail"

John Buford, Soldier

"Today, a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that, along with blood, we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole"

Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier

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