Mao Zedong Quotes

Armament is an important factor in war but not the decisive factor .... Man, not material, forms the decisive factor.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

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.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

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

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources

Victory in war depends on the morale of the masses which are shedding their blood on the battlefield.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

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

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

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

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

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