Attila Quotes

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

My policy is victory.

Battles decide everything.

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

History has been the history of warfare.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

At last I have won the Spanish war.

The object of a general is not to fight, but to conquer: he fights enough who obtains the victory.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

No victor believes in chance.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Victory is the main object in war.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.