For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us. — Alexander Suvorov Copy Share Image
We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 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
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Andrew Agnew 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
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
“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
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
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
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
“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
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when… — Henry Giroux 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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