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Military Quotes/Quotations

"Reason and calm judgement, the qualities specially belonging to a
leader."
- Tacitus, 55-177

"There are only two kinds of people on this beach; the dead and those
about to die. so lets get the hell out'a here"
- Colonel George Taylor - Omaha beach, 6 June 1944

Commander of the 16th. Infantry

"He makes no friend who never made a foe."

- Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892

"Fortune favors the brave."
- Terence

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong
to each other."
- Mother Teresa

"He who flees will fight again ....."
-Tertullian (QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS TERTULLIANUS ca 160).

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more
dangerous for all of us."
- Margareth Thatcher

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you
are, you aren't."
- Margareth Thatcher

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and
the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. "
- Margareth Thatcher

"He who has command of the sea has command of everyhing."
-Themistocles

"Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow...Instead of confronting
us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will
confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance-- our information
infrastructure."

- Sen. Fred Thompson, Chairman of the Senate (1998)

"He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day"
- Edward Lee Thorndike

"We must remember that one man is much the same as another,
and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
- Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (431-404 B.C.)

"It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to
act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter."
- Thucydides, Greek historian. "History of the Peloponnesian War" (C
404 BC)

"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and
its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting
done by fools."
-Thucydides

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free
means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
- Thucydides

"The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating
obedience to its officers."
- Thucydides, "History of The Peloponnesian War", book 2, 404 BC

"If your sword is too short, take one step forward"
- Admiral Marquis Heihachiro Togo (1846-1934), May 1905.
He was one of Japan's greatest Naval heroes. In the Russo-Japanese
War he defeated the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in 1904 and
destroyed the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905 at the battle of Tsushima.

"Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through
war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains their
primary and essential task. War, therefore, will endure to the end of
history, as long as there is a multiplicity of states."
- Heinrich von Treitschke

"The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' . . . It was merely another
powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness."
-President Harry Truman

"A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what
they don't want to do, and like it."
- Harry Truman

"Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the
opposite state should be always present to your mind.
- Ts`ao Kung

Bravery without forethought causes a man to fight blindly and
desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent must not be encountered
with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain
- Ts`ao Kung

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with
bloodshed
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong), (1893-1976)

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the
enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun
it is necessary to take up the gun
- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by
eating it yourself. . . . If you want to know the theory and methods
of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine
knowledge originates in direct experience."
- Mao Tse-Tung

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it
is man and not materials that counts.
- Mao Tse-tung 1938

"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted
army cannot defeat the enemy."
- Mao Tse-Tung

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
- Mao Tse-Tung

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he
tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
- Mao Tse-Tung

Be resolute, fear no sacifice, and surmount every difficultyto win
victory.
- Mao Tse-Tung

"It is a princible of the art of war that one should simply lay down
his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a
even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and
destinty."
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719)

"When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be
very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do
to think about going at it in a long roundabout way. One's heart may
slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no
success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best
to dash in headlong."
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their
dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the
last war."
- Barbara W. Tuchman: August 1914 (1962) ch. 2.

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
- Barbara Tuchman: The Guns Of August

"You must love soldiers in order to understand them, and understand
them in order to lead them."
-Henri Turenne

"Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be
undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be
formed."
- Wu Tzu

"Weapons are baleful instruments, strife is antagonistic to virtue, a
military commander is the negation of civil order!"
- Wei Liao Tzu

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