Military Quotes - Page 5

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.