For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Andrew Agnew Copy Share Image
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. — Alexander Suvorov Copy Share Image
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Let us immediately establish the point. Our enemies know full well that news is an important weapon in modern warfare and they… — Matthew Gordon Copy Share Image
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Miss Blanche, having given through her tears a complete account of this event, assured me that, to maintain our own parental love… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“In Poland there is a meaning to defeat that perhaps is unknown in countries differently situated. Along with a strong sense of… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
“The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“It was the concentration of resources and power in hierarchical political organizations, the millions of cannon-fodder citizens subject to their disposal, the… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
“The first ‘networked era’ followed the introduction of the printing press to Europe in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image