Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. Napoleon Bonaparte
We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. Thomas Jefferson
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. John F. Kennedy
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end. George S. Patton
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. Douglas MacArthur
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President. Andrew Jackson
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. George Washington
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. Niccolo Machiavelli
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill
If you want peace, prepare for war. Flavius Vegetius Renatus
