Total war Quotes · Page 4

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

— Sun Tzu

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

— Alexander Suvorov

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

— Frederick The Great

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

— Thucydides

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear…

— Cotton Mather

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

— Count of St. Germain

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

— Duke of Wellington

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

— William Wordsworth

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to…

— Anonymous

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

— Duke of Wellington

Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

— David Dellinger

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.

— Plutarch

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

— Ambrose Bierce

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises