Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded. — Alexander Suvorov Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — James Madison 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
The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 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
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
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
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
“Technology has its own ethic of expediency and efficiency. What can be done efficiently must be done in the most efficient way—even… — Thomas Merton 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
