For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
- Gen. George C. Patton

Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost, and will never lose a war... because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.
- Gen. George C. Patton

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
-Gen George C. Patton

"In the absence of orders, go find somthing and kill it it."

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones

Albert Einstein

We make war that we may live in peace

Aristotle

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached. God is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death

Manuel II Palaiologos (Emperor of Byzantium 1391-1425)

We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.

General Curtis E. LeMay USAF

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Et tu, Brute?"

"You too Brutus?"

Julius Caesar

“I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.”

Julius Caesar

"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"

Sergeant Major Daniel Daly USMC

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain, will never rise to fight again."

Tacitus

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both

Niccolo Machiavelli

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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