Mark Twain Quotes

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.

The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain the instinct for survival, not to speak of minimal concern for their fellow man, will seek ways to act before rather than after the event.

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.

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

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

We should ask our commanders..." Elayne trailed off. "If there are any we trust not to be under Compulsion." "There's only one," Mat said grimly, meeting her eyes. "And he's telling you we are finished if we continue as we have. The earlier plan was a good enough one, but after what we lost today...Elayne, we're dead unless we choose one place to stand, gather together, and fight." One last toss of the dice.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.