Quotes by Military Leaders - Page 2

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Napoleon
Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.
Winfield Scott
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Napoléon Bonaparte
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Napoleon
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
Frederick the Great
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.
Ulysses S. Grant
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
George Washington
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.
Charles de Gaulle
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoléon Bonaparte
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.
George Washington
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Napoleon
Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.
Winfield Scott
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am not afraid. ... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
Napoléon Bonaparte
You may ask me for anything you like except time.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Napoleon
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
Napoleon
I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.
Napoléon Bonaparte