To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“that when fear is your default state of mind, you try very hard to control everything. It is a futile battle that… — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the… — Holland Smith Copy Share Image
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Women are so much a part of war, even if they tend to see another side of it. To say they don't… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts. — Victor Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Another steganographic system was still in use in the 20th century: Aeneas suggested pricking holes in a book or other document above… — David Kahn Copy Share Image
In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When armies benefit from being perceived as necessary, and war provides a means of gaining prestige and leverage over the government,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“The key word is shouldn’t,” he said grimly. “It isn’t a word I like to hear when it comes to battle. That… — Michael G. Manning Copy Share Image
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him -… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in… — Andrei Cherny Copy Share Image
“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now… — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why!… — Francis Daniels Moore Copy Share Image
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“I have defined victory not by the outcome of any battle, but by the integrity with which I fought the battle.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“A battle of wits you say? What if I'm not qualified? If you thinking about that, then I'm already in your head!” — Bambi F. Moore Copy Share Image
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Yes, I will see you through the smoke and flames. On the frontlines of war we have to find a better way. — Escape The Fate Copy Share Image
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. — E. Jean Carroll Copy Share Image
“Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.” — Lee Strauss Copy Share Image
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Too much coffee has been spilled in the name of war. Let us love and savor every drop.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Our soldiers fought in the Korean War to push back communism. As a result of their effort and the effort of our… — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
