Quotes on Historical Military

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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.

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

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.