Quotes on Military History

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

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

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

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

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.