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"Maneuvers
are often media events rather than full-scale war games."
-Donald W. Sampcor, USMC
"The
shovel is the brother to the gun."
-Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, and Spanish-American
War veteran. A soldier in combat quickly learns that digging a hole to hide in
offers better protection than using his weapon.
When the rich make
war it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but
by the way it kills them."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is not big
armies that win battles, it is the good ones!"
- Marshal Maurice de Saxe
("Mes Reveries")
"Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in
depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their
very soul."
- Field Marshal Maurice Comte de Saxe, French Army
"The
forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking
in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would have had
to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our
disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even moderate resistance."
- Dr. Paul Schmidt, Hitler's interpreter
"Military
history, when superficially studied, will furnish arguments in support of any
theory."
-Bronsart von Schellendorf, imperial German officer and military historian
"The fear of
war is worse than war itself."
-Seneca
You can always tell
an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young men
carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
-George Bernard Shaw
"The
capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by
the incapacity of his adversary."
-George Bernard Shaw
"When the
military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its
womankind."
-George Bernard Shaw
"There's only
one truth about war: people die."
- Sheridan
"The dominant
feeling of the battlefield is loneliness"
- Field Marshall Viscount Slim of Burma, June 1941.
"Most of the
time, leaders should laugh at themselves rather than others."
- Major General Perry M. Smith, U.S. Air Force
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of
mind,
a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice"
- Baruch Spinoza
"A sincere diplomat
is like dry water or wooden iron."
- Joseph Stalin, 1913.
"A single death is
a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"
- Joseph Stalin
"The Limey layout is simply stupendous, you trip over
Lieutenant-Generals on every
floor,
most of them doing captains work, or none at all."
- General Joseph Stillwell, about the Burma campaign 1943
"More
than one general has redeemed faulty dispositions and won fame by a suitably
glorious death."
-James Lawton Stokesbury, military historian
“Military
doctrine is military, and particularly tactical philosophy; doctrine creates
certainty, which is the soul of every action.”
-
General A.A.
Svechin. “The foundation of military doctrine” 1920.
"War: that mad
game the world so loves to play."
- Jonathan Swift
One enemy can do
more hurt than ten friends can do good.
- Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
“Not with dreams
but with blood and iron
Shall a nation be molded at last.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and
critic
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