Memorable Famous Military Quotes

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"In war, there is no prize for the runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"It is better to be respected than loved."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
General George S. Patton
"Never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense."
Winston Churchill
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier."
Samuel Johnson
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a strong readiness to die."
G. K. Chesterton
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"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."
Napoleon Hill
"You cannot be prepared for the unexpected."
Leonard Cohen
"A country that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."
Abraham Lincoln
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
Ronald Reagan
"In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash."
General Doug MacArthur
"There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Rush
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln
"The skill of a leader is not in getting the job done, but in getting others to do it."
General J. C. Wylie
"A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the army."
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
"In war, there is no substitute for victory."
General Douglas MacArthur
"It is not how you start, but how you finish that matters."
General Norman Schwarzkopf
"Peace is our profession."
General Curtis LeMay
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
Joseph Heller
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"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
General George S. Patton
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"It is the spirit of the army that matters, not the skill of the army commander."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out."
David Galula
"The best defense is a good offense."
General Andrew Jackson
"All warfare is based on deception."
Sun Tzu
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In a democracy, the soldier is a citizen."
George C. Marshall
"A nation that does not prepare its youth for war does not prepare them for peace."
Winston Churchill
"The first rule of war is to love your country."
Sun Tzu
"The strongest army in the world isn't the one that has the most guns, but the one that inspires the most loyalty."
Anonymous
"In peace, kids prepare for war. In war, adults play the fool."
Nassi Ibn Shushan
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"In war, there is no second prize for the runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
George Washington
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In war, victory and defeat are not lasting; the only lasting thing is the honor of the soldier."
General Douglas MacArthur
"War is not as expensive as servitude."
Cyrus the Great
"The first victory is to avoid war. The second is to win."
French Proverb
"A nation that forgets its heroes will itself be forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
"The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a subject of the state."
George Marshall
"Every man is a warrior until he is outnumbered."
Anonymous
"It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."
Norman Schwarzkopf
"To the victor belong the spoils."
William L. Marcy
"War may be an act of necessity, but it is certainly not an act of honor."
Lester B. Pearson
"The truth is that there is no such thing as an honorable war."
Andrew Bacevich
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Herodotus
"War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Retreat, hell! We're just attacking in another direction."
Marine Corps General Oliver P. Smith
"You can't say that you have a victory until it's official."
John McCain
"In war, there is no prize for the second place."
General Omar N. Bradley
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
General Norman Schwarzkopf
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
Sun Tzu
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"No guts, no glory."
General Frederick C. Blesse
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."
General Robert E. Lee
"War is simple, direct, and ruthless."
General George S. Patton
"The best way to win a battle is to avoid it."
Mikhail Bakunin
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"You can't win a war if you don't have a plan."
George S. Patton
"The ultimate measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught."
Thomas B. Macaulay
"There is no such thing as a minor war."
Anthony Eden
"In war, the first casualty is truth."
Aeschylus
"Every battle is won before it is ever fought."
Sun Tzu
"An army marches on its stomach."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Sweat saves blood; blood saves lives."
General George S. Patton
"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
General Douglas MacArthur
"Peace is a gift you make yourself."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Never give an order that can be ignored."
General Douglas MacArthur
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."
John Wooden
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Freedom is never free."
Author Unknown
"In war, there is no prize for runner-up."
General Omar N. Bradley
"No plan survives contact with the enemy."
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
"The troops are the most important combat multiplier."
General David Petraeus
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
G. K. Chesterton
"War is too important to be left to the generals."
Georges Clemenceau
"You can't think about the plan when you're getting shot at."
General Norman Schwarzkopf
"The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought."
Sun Tzu
"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will."
James Madison
"To be prepared is half the victory."
Miguel de Cervantes
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
Adolf Hitler
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Aeschylus
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
Douglas MacArthur
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover
"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends."
John 15:13
"War is a mere continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers."
General George S. Patton
"The best way to keep your word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Every soldier thinks something of the merits of the service he is in."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
General George S. Patton
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
General George S. Patton
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"War is relentless. It stimulates the intellect and the heart, but blunts the spirit."
Henry Kissinger
"Military genius is nothing more than a combination of quickness and decision."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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