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Military Quotations Click  No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it". Later on this custom declined. So did Rome.Adams, Henry Brooks Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.Adcock, F E Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...Aristophanes [John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.Asimov, Isaac To save your world you asked this man to die;Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? Auden, Wystan Hugh Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.Baudouin I The great questions of the day will be decided not by speeches and majority votes… but by blood and iron.Bismarck, Otto von The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.Blackstone, Sir William That there is a threat from Saddam Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction that he has acquired is not in doubt at all.Blair, Tony Charles Lynton Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go inBonaparte, Napoleon Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the MountBradley, General Omar Nelson |
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