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A few
"General, these are American regulars. In a hundred and fifty years they have never been beaten. They will hold." Col. Preston Brown, C/S, 2nd Infantry Division, the Marne,June 1, 1918, replying to French Gen. Jean DeGoutte’s,
An important difference between a military operation and a surgical operation is that the patient is not tied down. But it is a common fault of generalship to assume that he is.
B.H. Liddell Hart
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake, we must not interrupt him too soon. Lord Nelson
I Have Only One Merit: I Have Forgotten Everything I Have Taught and Everything I Have Learned.
Marshal Of France Ferdinand Foch
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.
Frank Drebben
LAPD Police Lieutenant
"At this range, They couldn't hit an elepha…"
Last words of General John Sedgwick, CDR VIth Corps, Army Of The Potomac, 9 May 1864 at the Battle Spotsylvania just as he was shot by a Confederate sniper from 800 yards
If all is not in order, I will hang you despite my personal high regard for you.
Field Marshall Aleksandr Suvarov to his Chief of Quartermaster
Without supplies no army is brave.
Frederick The Great
What makes a good general? Pay Well. Command Well. Hang Well.
General Sir Ralph Hampton, Cromwell’s Chief of Staff
"It is not by walls that a country is defended, but by the courage of its soldiers."
-- Robert Blondel
Nothing concentrates the military mind so much as the discovery that you have walked into an ambush."
LTG Sir Thomas Packenham
If You Cannot Convince Them, Confuse Them. Harry Truman
Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy. Benjamin Franklin
Why IS The Alphabet In That Order? Is It Because Of That Song?
I Have Only One Merit: I Have Forgotten what I have taught and what I learned. Marshal Of France Ferdinand Foch
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass to a clerk who understood it better than I did. Grant
Success cannot be administered. Admiral Arleigh Burke
However absorbed a commander may be in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. Winston Churchill
When the smoke cleared away, it was the man with the sword, or the crossbow, or the rifle, who settled the final issue on the field. George Marshall
A Leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon
The badge of rank which an officer wears on his coat is really a symbol of servitude to his men. Max Taylor
One of the first regulations might be to think. Sherman
I don’t know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me! Wellington on replacements
My wounded are behind me and I will never pass them alive. Zachary Taylor
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Patton
In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it. Field Marshall Viscount Slim
Valour lies halfway between rashness and cowardness Comte de Saxe
Thus terminated the war, and with it all remembrance of the veteran’s services. GEN Sir William Napier (on the British public after the Napleonic Wars)
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." Robert Frost
You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot)
You are not beaten until you admit it."
--George S. Patton
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“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” — Oscar Wilde
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