German prisoners, asked to assess their various enemies, have said that the British attacked singing, and the French attacked shouting, but that the Americans attacked in silence. They liked better the men who attacked singing or shouting than the grimly silent men who kept coming on stubbornly without a sound.
—James Jones
My right is driven in, my center is giving way, the situation is excellent, I attack.
—Marshal Ferdinand Foch
It is not the big armies that win battles; it is the good ones.
—Marshal Maurice de Saxe
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
—Leon Trotsky
One man with courage is a majority.
—Thomas Jefferson
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
—John F. Kennedy
Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivaled garment for fornication and diarrhea.
—Lieutenant Colonel John Masters
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America — not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
—Marshall McLuhan
The more mechanical become the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
—Major General J. F. C. Fuller
The politician should fall silent the moment mobilization begins, and not resume his precedence until the strategist has informed the King, after the total defeat of the enemy, that he has completed his task.
—Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder