Yoshijiro Umezu Quotes

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

This is a hard country to defend.

The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

Attack the enemy's strategy.

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.