Quotes on Great Military

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.