Quotes on Greatest Military

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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.

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

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