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"The power of example is very important to people under stress."
- General Sir John Hackett, British Army

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. 
- Alexander Haig

The problem with sports and war is that God is on everyone's side.
--Duane Alan Hahn

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
   - Nathan Hale

"There can be no peace but that which is forced by the sword." 
-Henry Halleck, nineteenth-century American military writer and inept Civil War general

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
- Admiral William Halsey

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
- Admiral William Halsey

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
- Dag Hammarskjöld, Former UN Secretary-General

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
- Dag Hammarskjöld, Former UN Secretary-General

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
- Dag Hammarskjöld, Former UN Secretary-General

"Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives."
- Dr. Ernst Hanftstaengl

”We will either find a way or make one.”
- Hannibal (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general.

War will cease when men refuse to fight. 
- Fridtjof Hansen

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Salvor Hardin

"Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed"
- Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris (1892-1984)

"I have always regarded the forward edge of battle as the most exclusive club in the world." 
-Sir Brian Harrock

"Peace is an extension of war by political means."
- Robert Heinlein

Always keep your clothes and your weapons where you can find them in the dark
- Robert Heinlein

"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
- Ernest Miller Hemmingway

"The highest generalship is to compel the enemy to disperse his army, and then to concentrate superior force against each fraction in turn."
- Col. Henderson

"The rules of strategy are few and simple. They may be learned in a week. They may be taught by familiar illustrations or a dozen diagrams. But such knowledge will no more teach a man to lead an army like Napoleon than a knowledge of grammar will teach him to write like Gibbon."
- Col. Henderson

"The line of supply may be said to be as vital to the existence of an army as the heart to the life of a human being. Just as the duelist who finds his adversary's point menacing him with certain death, and his own guard astray, is compelled to conform to his adversary's movements, and to content himself with warding off his thrusts, so the commander whose communications are suddenly threatened find s himself in a false position, and he will be fortunate if he has not to change all his plans, to split up his force into more or less isolated detachments, and to fight with inferior numbers on ground which he has not had time to prepare, and where defea t will not be an ordinary failure, but will entail the ruin or surrender of his whole army."
- Col. Henderson

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave...
-Patrick Henry

"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
   - Helvetius

"War is the mother of everything." 
-Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (535-475BC)

"Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there,
Eighty are just targets,
Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle.
Ah, but the one,
One is a warrior,
And he will bring the others back."
- Heraclitus

"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons." 
-Heroditus, greek historian c. 484-425 B.C.

"History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia."
- Heroditus

"Force has no place where there is need of skill."
- Heroditus

"A war put off is not a war avoided." 
- Charlton Heston

"The enemy bombards our front not only with a drumfire of artillery, but also with a drumfire of printed paper. Besides bombs, which kill the body, his airmen also throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul."
-Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, 1847-1934

"We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable."
- Emperor Hirohito

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
-Abbie Hoffman

Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge hammer.
Major Holdridge

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war
- John Andrew Holmes

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war." 
-Herbert Hoover, speech, 1944

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
- Rear adm. Grace Murray Hopper

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Rear adm. Grace Murray Hopper

"I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world"
- General Sir Brian Horrocks, "A Full Life" 1960.

"Come on, Lakotas! It's a good day to die!"
- Crazy Horse, June 1876.
When he rallied the Lakota warriors to defend their camp on 
the Little Big Horn River against Custer's attack.

I just don't think nuclear weapons are usable... I'm not saying that we military disarm. I'm saying that I have a nuclear weapons, and you're North Korea and you have a nuclear weapon. You can use yours. I can't use mine. What am I going to use it on? What are nuclear weapons good for? Busting cities. What president of the United States is going to take out Pyongyang?
- General Charles Horner

I want to go to zero, and I'll tell you why: If we and the Russians can go to zero nuclear weapons, then think what that does for us in our efforts to counter the new war... Think how intolerant we will be of nations that are developing nuclear weapons if we have none. Think of the high moral ground we secure by having none... It's kind of hard for us to say to North Korea, 'You are terrible people, you're developing a nuclear weapons,' when we have oh, 8,000.
- General Charles Horner

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian-U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.
- General Charles Horner

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
- General Charles Horner

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.
- General Charles Horner