Arleigh Burke Quotes

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

Our military is meant to fight and win war.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

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

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

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

We'll start firing till they drop or we drop.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

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

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.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

War is the trade of Kings.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.