Military Quotes - Page 4

• The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

  Dante Alighieri

  Race, Liberty, Degrees

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• A war put off is not a war avoided.

  Charlton Heston

  War, Avoided

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• ...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

  Paul Yingling

  War, Suffering, Rifles

  "A failure in generalship". armedforcesjournal.com. May 1, 2007.

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• REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Army, Matter, Congress

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Mankind, Plague

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• The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Funny, Stupid, Army

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• If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, War, Principles

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• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Levels, Strategy

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• The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Mind, Gauges, Opponents

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• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Deformity, Produce, Womb

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Training, May, Indirect

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• While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Taken, Order, Enemy

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2013). “Foch - The Man Of Orleans”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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• Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

  Cleobulus

  Soul, Body

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• With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Growing, Offensive, Profit

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• In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Enemy, Purpose, Maintenance

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• Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

  Philip Sheridan

  Thinking, Opponents, Knows

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• You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials and we don't have much of a choice but to get through 'em, and it takes a lot of bravery to do that. The most important thing about bravery is this - It's not about not being scared - it's about being scared and doing it anyway - that's bravery.

  Ysabella Brave

  Brave, Choices, Important

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Everyday Bravery", www.youtube.com. March 25, 2007.

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Balance, Usual, Essentials

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• It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Long, Promise, Keep The Faith

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• No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Phases, Phases Of Life, Duty

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Soldier, Nations

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• Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Enemy, Allies, Injury

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Demand, Belief, Imagine

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• The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Cutting, Enemy

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• The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Decay, States

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