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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Sep 10, 2025
An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
Win with ability, not with numbers.
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
Rascals, do you want to live forever?
I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
War makes rattling good history.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.