Adolf Hitler Quotes

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

War is the science of destruction.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

War is the trade of Kings.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

... merely another weapon.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

Terrour ... makes short warres

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.

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 sweet to them that know it not.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.