Total War Quotes - Page 2

• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, History

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• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, Military, War

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  Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Mind, World

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.554

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• Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

  Homer

  Fighting

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• England expects that every man will do his duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Men, England

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Courage, War, Enemy

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

  George Orwell

  Strength, Peace, Freedom

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)

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• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  George Washington

  War, 4th Of July, Enemy

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• Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Suffering, Without Hope

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.383

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  George Santayana

  Military, War, Philosophical

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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Determination, Work

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book XV, 50,

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• If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

  William Pitt

  Country, Military, Revolution

  Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

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• His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  War, Heart, Faces

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.135, Penguin

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• Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

  Thucydides

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Self Control

  "History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

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• Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

  Cotton Mather

  War, Dying, Bears

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter III: Strategic Attack. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

  Duke of Wellington

  Fear, War

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Data

  "On War".

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Summer, Heart

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500

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• The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Dream, Perfect, Enemy

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• God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

  Voltaire

  God, Military, War

  "Great Thinkers Great Thoughts: One Thought Can Change Your World". Book published by Tejgyan Global Foundation, 2015.

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