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"An eye for an eye only ends by making the whole world blind."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
- Charles De Gaulle

"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
- Charles De Gaulle

"In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly"
- General Charles de Gaulle

"Having to do it for the first time in combat is a chastening experience, it gives a man religion."
- Maj-General J.M. Gavin, after his first combat paradrop 1944

"A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast."
- Gengis Kahn

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace"
- Andre Gide

"The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators" 
- Edward Gibbon, English historian and scholar. (1776)

"So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds." 
- Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794

"Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?"
- Josef Goebbels, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda

"Those who have not yet realized danger are generally the bravest soldiers." 
-Colmar von der Goltz, German field marshal, World War I

"He who stays on the defencive does not make war, he endures it"
- Field Marshal Colmar Baron von der Goltz, 1883

"The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did." 
-Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov, father of the Russian blue water navy

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
- Ulysses S. Grant

"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
- Ulysses S. Grant

"The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable."
- Ulysses S. Grant

"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."
- Ulysses S. Grant

"Wherever the enemy goes, let our troops go also"
- Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864.

"I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did"
- General Ulysses S. Grant, about paperwork and administration

"I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general."
- Lt Gen Alfred M. Gray, USMC

"[I go] where the sound of thunder is."
- Lt Gen Alfred M. Gray

"There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places."
- Lt Gen Alfred M. Gray

"We have severly underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the trechery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality."
- General Hienz Guderian, letter to his wife 1941

"The mind of the enemy and the will of his leaders is a target of far more importance than the bodies of his troops."
-Brigadier General S.B. Griffith, II, USMC

"When the situation is obscure, attack!"
- Heinz Guderian (1888-1954)

"The battle we are now approaching demands a colossal measure of production capacity. No limit on rearmament can be visualized. The only alternatives are victory or destruction... We live in a time when the final battle is in sight. We are ready on the threshold of mobilization and we are already at war. All that is lacking is the actual shooting."
- Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (1936)