Robert E. Lee Quotes

Irregular war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

I want you all to understand that we are at war and we will stay as war until this is done. Nothing else matters. Everything is available for the pursuit of this war. Any barriers in your way, they’re gone. Any money you need, you have it. This is our only agenda.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

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.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

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

I like war.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.