History Quote by George Finlay

“The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals…

— Anonymous

“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.”

— John J. Pershing

“A tolerably extensive reading of campaigns and military histories justifies me in saying that such an exhibition of unsuspicious security in the presence of…

— Warren Olney

“Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Automatic warfare’ cancels them out, except in a…

— B.H. Liddell Hart

“learned the hard way that an enemy that fights for what he believes to be a God-given purpose will always have an advantage over…

— Andreas Christensen

“Military ferocity is not a fixed quality of any race or culture, but a temporary condition that usually bears the seeds of it own…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world”

— Anthony Everitt

“A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.”

— Michelle Moran

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with…

— Terry Goodkind

“This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with…

— F. Sionil José

“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe