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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." — Alexander the Great "I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity." — Alexander the Great "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me." — Cao Cao "Wine before us, let us sing; how brief is the span of mortal life." — Cao Cao "Success always calls for greater generosity." — Cyrus the Great "Diversity in counsel, unity in command." — Cyrus the Great "I leave two daughters — the victory at Leuctra and the victory at Mantinea." — Epaminondas "I have lived long enough, for I die unconquered." — Epaminondas "I cannot show the images of my ancestors, but I can show the spoils and the scars I have won." — Gaius Marius "Place soldiers where there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight." — Han Xin "In commanding troops, the more the better." — Han Xin "I came, I saw, I conquered." — Julius Caesar "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with pa…" — Julius Caesar "Come and take them." — Leonidas I "Tonight we shall dine in Hades." — Leonidas I "Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones." — Scipio Africanus "Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." — Sun Tzu "Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." — Sun Tzu "All warfare is based on deception." — Sun Tzu "Strike, if you will, but hear me." — Themistocles "I never learned how to tune a harp, but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory." — Themistocles "It is better that the guilty go unpunished than that the innocent be condemned." — Trajan "I wish to be to my subjects the emperor I should have wished for, had I been a subject." — Trajan "The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." — Zhuge Liang "Without inner calm, one cannot achieve far-reaching goals." — Zhuge Liang "Act, and God will act." — Joan of Arc "I am not afraid; I was born to do this." — Joan of Arc "There is no spot on my body but bears a wound, yet here I die in my bed, as the cowards die." — Khalid ibn al-Walid "Do nothing which is of no use." — Miyamoto Musashi "The way is in training." — Miyamoto Musashi "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." — Niccolò Machiavelli "Never was anything great achieved without danger." — Niccolò Machiavelli "Rule the realm by force of arms." — Oda Nobunaga "If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it." — Oda Nobunaga "Beware of shedding blood; trust not in that, for blood that is spilt never slumbers." — Saladin "Swift as the wind, silent as a forest, fierce as fire, immovable as a mountain." — Takeda Shingen "People are your castle, people are your walls, people are your moat." — Takeda Shingen "Life is like a long journey with a heavy burden; let your step be slow and steady." — Tokugawa Ieyasu "If the cuckoo will not sing, wait for it." — Tokugawa Ieyasu "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." — Carl von Clausewitz "Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult." — Carl von Clausewitz "He who defends everything defends nothing." — Frederick the Great "Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." — Frederick the Great "Discipline is the soul of an army." — George Washington "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." — George Washington "The moral is to the physical as three is to one." — Napoleon Bonaparte "An army marches on its stomach." — Napoleon Bonaparte "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." — Napoleon Bonaparte "When you march into France, let the last man on the right brush the Channel with his sleeve." — Alfred von Schlieffen "Keep the right wing strong." — Alfred von Schlieffen "I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death." — Giuseppe Garibaldi "Here we make Italy, or we die." — Giuseppe Garibaldi "No plan of operations survives the first contact with the enemy's main body." — Helmuth von Moltke "First weigh the considerations, then take the risks." — Helmuth von Moltke "On the ruins of a crumbling empire I will build a vast kingdom of my own." — Muhammad Ali Pasha "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." — Robert E. Lee "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." — Stonewall Jackson "You may be whatever you resolve to be." — Stonewall Jackson "In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten; then he who continues the atta…" — Ulysses S. Grant "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as h…" — Ulysses S. Grant "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." — William T. Sherman "War is hell." — William T. Sherman "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war." — Charles de Gaulle "France was made with the sword." — Charles de Gaulle "In war, there is no substitute for victory." — Douglas MacArthur "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." — Douglas MacArthur "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything." — Dwight D. Eisenhower "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower "In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it." — Erwin Rommel "Sweat saves blood. Blood saves lives. But brains save both." — Erwin Rommel "My centre is giving way, my right is retreating; situation excellent, I attack." — Ferdinand Foch "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." — Ferdinand Foch "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." — George S. Patton "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for h…" — George S. Patton "The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander." — T.E. Lawrence "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by day are dangerous men." — T.E. Lawrence "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." — Colin Powell "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." — Colin Powell "Hard is not hopeless." — David Petraeus "Tell me how this ends." — David Petraeus "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." — Moshe Dayan "Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." — Moshe Dayan "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." — Norman Schwarzkopf "True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow." — Norman Schwarzkopf