If you loved the first list, here is Deadliest Blogger’s list of favorite military quotes, part two:
“When the situation is obscure, attack!” – General Heinz Guderian
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” – Sun Tzu
“Veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered) – Julius Caesar, on the very brief campaign against the Pontians.
“Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.” – Flavius Vegetius
“If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” – Winston Churchill, when questioned during Operation Barbarossa how he, a life-long anti-communist, could call for support of Stalin.
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” – General Robert Edward Lee
“We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.” – Carl Von Clausewitz
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” – JRR Tolkien
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
“In war truth is the first casualty.” – Often attributed to Aeschylus
“During war truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill
“”A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.” – Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., on the value of hard training.
“The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning, before the enemy has time to react, deep into his rear.” – Gen. Erwin Rommel, on the definition of Blitzkrieg (“Lightning War”); as he practiced it in France, 1940
“War is the province of chance.” – Carl von Clausewitz
“I shall return!” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur, on departing from the Philippines in 1942
“I have not yet begun to fight” – John Paul Jones
“Molon labe!” (Come and take them!) – Leonidas of Sparta, in response to the Persian demand that the Spartans at Thermopylae lay down their arms.
“Nuts” – General Anthony McAuliffe, Dep. Commander 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge, in response to the German demand for the surrender of Bastogne.
(Also in this series: Greatest Quotes on War 1; Greatest Quotes on War 3; Greatest Quotes on War 4, and Greatest Quotes on War 5)
Well Barry, My favourite quote would be. ” The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. That way many lives would be saved.
Indeed. I think that one is in Part 1.
Mr. Barry..If you write an article about ‘The Great Game” , it would be very much useful to us. I am very confused about the events that took place during the great game period…And your posts are very useful to understand the historical events.And one more thing… I already read your post about the Diadochi wars on scout warrior blog, but now only you are posting the 6th part ,what happened?Thank you.
Scout moved away from historical blogs and back to its core competency, sports. So I came back here to my original site.
Mr.Barry. Is there any battle or war in history before Germany that replicate the German Blitzkrieg..
The Mongol invasions of Khwarezmia and Eastern Europe come to mind. No army in history has traveled further or faster in a single campaign than the Mongols; and no army was more mobile, even in modern times.
Ok.Good. What about the “Great Game” topic…
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