James Longstreet Quotes

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

Great battles are won with artillery.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.