Insignificant Quote by Rick Atkinson

“the soldier, few men realize, is the only one of the military men who cannot do his part of the war alone.”

— J.C. Wylie

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

— Georges Clemenceau

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

“Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet…

— Leo Tolstoy

“An enemy soldier never seemed to be alone--one human being like any other--but followed, crushed from all directions by innumerable ghosts, the missing and…

— Irène Némirovsky

“Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were…

— Nayan Chanda

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

— Anonymous

“The casualties of war are true heroes that everybody forgets to remember, even those who fight wars within themselves…”

— Michelle Horst

“There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and…

— William Saroyan

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

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus