Total war Quotes · Page 4

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even…

— Joseph Goebbels

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

— William Cowper

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

— Alexander Suvorov

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what…

— Herodotus

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

— Thomas Jefferson

If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us.

— Alexander Suvorov

“Let us immediately establish the point. Our enemies know full well that news is an important weapon in modern warfare and they…

— Matthew Gordon

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

— John Milton

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…

— Benjamin Franklin

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

— Dominique Bouhours

We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

— Andrew Agnew

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

— Sophocles

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

— Carl von Clausewitz

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the…

— William III of England