Ancient Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises? Half the time the promises were never asked of them…

— Tad Williams

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

— Thomas Jefferson

“humans must not be allowed to notice that all great moralists are sent by the Enemy not to inform men but to remind them,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where…

— Robertson Davies

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Let’s honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.”

— Steve Anderson

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle,…

— John Quincy Adams

“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the…

— Sulari Gentill

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always…

— African Spir

“This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.”

— Sebastian Faulks