Political leaders Quote by Christopher Nuttall

“Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this…

— Andy Andrews

“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The leaders were less willing to fight. It is always the young and impressionable who strap on the explosives and blow themselves up.”

— Mark Owen

“I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our…

— F. Sionil José

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

— Michael Beschloss

“Victory in war does not depend entirely upon numbers or mere courage; only skill and discipline will insure it.”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better…

— Joe Abercrombie

“It was good for troops to know their officers were reliable, and that we didn’t hate each other—at least not to a degree that…

— B.V. Larson

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

“What sticks with me now is not so much the pain and terror and sorrow of the war, though I remember that well enough.…

— R.V. Burgin

“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitated toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why…

— Michael J. Sullivan