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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

"I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle."
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man-I want you to know that."
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1991

"I feel that retired generals should never miss an opportunity to remain silent concerning matters for which they are no longer responsible."
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in."
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"We need to destroy not attack, not damage, not surround. I want to destroy the Republican Guard"
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1991

"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

"In peace nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, disguise fair nature with hard favored rage. . ."
   - William Shakespeare ("Henry V")

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once."
   - William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War."
   - William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother; be ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed, Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhood's cheap whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
   - William Shakespeare ("King Henry V")

"From now until the end of the world,  we and it shall be remembered. We few, we Band of Brothers. For he how sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."
- Shakespear's Henry V

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

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
-William Tecumseh Sherman

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." 
-General William T. Sherman, speech 1880 from which we derive the phrase War is hell

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
- General William T. Sherman

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman

"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

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
- Stalin, 1913.

"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

"One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, 
one hour - the outcome of the campaign, 
and one day - the fate of the country." 
-Russian Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr Vasilyevich Suvorov

"Win with ability, not with numbers" 
- Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov

"Accustom yourself to tireless activity……."
- Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov

"When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encirceled and dispersed, we have succeeded."
- Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov

"The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about"
- Field Marshal Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov, "The science of victory" 1796

"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