John Buford Quotes

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

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!

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.

Battles decide everything.

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

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

In battle, topography is fate.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

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

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

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 his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.