Total war Quotes · Page 4

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

— Duke of Wellington

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

— David Dellinger

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

— Duke of Wellington

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

— William Wordsworth

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

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

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

— Marquis de Sade

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs…

— Michael A. Ledeen

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

— Voltaire

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

— Duke of Wellington

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

— Sun Tzu

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

— Samuel Johnson

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

— Aurangzeb