Quotes by Military Leaders - Page 7

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction
Simon Bolivar
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoléon Bonaparte
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…
Alexander the Great
Veni vidi vici. (I came I saw I conquered.)
Julius Caesar
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
George Washington
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
Napoléon Bonaparte
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
Julius Caesar
It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
George Washington
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
Independence has made us Soft
Houari Boumediene
Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
Ferdinand Foch
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
Frederick the Great
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Napoleon
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
Napoléon Bonaparte
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.
Duke of Wellington
If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
Napoléon Bonaparte
...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are]... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
George Washington
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
And say to all the world "This was a man!"
Julius Caesar
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
Charles de Gaulle
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]
Alexander the Great
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Robert E. Lee
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Ulysses S. Grant
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.
William the Silent
Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.
Herman Goering
The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity.
Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.
Abdelkader Djezairi
Victory is a thing of the will.
Marshal Foch