Victory belongs to the most persevering. --Napoleon Bonaparte--

We have met the enemy and they are ours! --Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813--

Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) --Julius Caesar--

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. --John Stewart Mill--

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. --Winston Churchill--

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it. --Anonymous (1940's saying)--

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other. --Napoleon I--

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. --George Patton--

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. --Thucydides--

In war there is no substitute for victory. --General Douglas MacArthur--

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. --Oscar Wilde--

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. --Helvetius--

Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking. --Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne

Dwight EisenhowerLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

George PattonLive for something rather than die for nothing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Norman Schwarzkopf The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Colin Powell There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let us go inland and be killed."

General Norman Cota — Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944.

"When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails."

— Robert Kagan

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."

— General George S. Patton

To be born free is an accident. To live free is a privilege. To die free is a responsibility.

— Brig. General James Sehorn

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only the dead have seen the end of war.  ~Plato