Miscellany Wit And Wisdom On Soldierly

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Miscellany Wit And Wisdom On Soldierly

1. The greatest victory is that which requires no battle. ~ Sun Tzu
2. If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him. ~ Unknown
3. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. ~ General James Mattis
4. When you’re short of everything but the enemy, you are in combat. ~ Unknown
5. If you find yourself in a fair fight – you didn’t plan your mission properly. ~ David Hackworth
6. You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. ~ Leon Trotsky
7. Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
8. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. ~ Helmuth von Moltke
9. It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. ~ Napoléon Bonaparte
10. If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. ~ Napoléon Bonaparte
11. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. ~  Niccolò Machiavelli
12. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. ~ Sun Tzu
13. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~ William Arthur Ward
14. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ~ Robert Lynd
15. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. ~ George Bernard Shaw
16. Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov. ~ Russian Proverb
17. If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ~ Niccolò Machiavelli
18. No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. ~  Niccolò Machiavelli
19. That city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick. ~ Lycurgus
20. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. ~ James Carse
21. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. ~ Napoléon Bonaparte
22. If the enemy is in range, so are you. ~ Infantry Journal
23. Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword, obviously never encountered automatic weapons. ~  General Douglas MacArthur
24. No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. ~  Niccolò Machiavelli
25. Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. ~ Allan Massie
26. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home. ~ Sun Tzu
27. Debt was ignoble. Courage was a virtue. Mothers were beloved. Marriage was a sacrament. Divorce was disgraceful. All this led you into battle, and sustained you as you fought, and comforted you if you fell, and, if it came to that, justified your death to all who loved you as you had loved them. ~ William Manchester