Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

History has been the history of warfare.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

I have to send people out to get killed.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

I like war.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

War is the science of destruction.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.