Quotes on Total War

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

To live with glory, or with glory die, _x000D_ This is the brave man's part.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.