Category: Quotes of the Week

You don’t fight this fellow rifle to rifle. You locate him and back away. Blow the hell out of him and then police up.

—Brigadier General Glenn D. Walker

The proper strategy consists in inflicting as telling blows as possible on the enemy’s army, and then in causing the inhabitants so much suffering that they must long for peace, and force the government to demand it. The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with after the war.

—General Philip H. Sheridan

If we have an arms control agreement, the Russians will cheat. If we have an arms race, we will win.

—General Earle Wheeler

Good generals, unlike poets, are made rather than born, and will never reach the first rank without much study of their profession; but they must have certain natural gifts, the power of quick decision, judgment, boldness, and, I am afraid, a considerable degree of toughness, almost callousness, which is harder to find as civilization progresses.

—Field Marshal Lord Arthur Wavell

We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly.

—General George Marshall

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and lets down its friends.

—Richard M. Nixon

I have always been against the pacifists during the war, and against the jingoists at the end.

—Winston Churchill

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

—Thomas Paine

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

—Charles de Gaulle