Sarah Palin Quotes

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

War is the trade of Kings.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

You are the President. You tell them to go to hell.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.