J.F.C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

Tecumseh

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

“The enemy suggested we surrender through loudspeaker, but our officers and men just laughed and paid no attention”. –Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Ferdinand Marcos

“Those whom you fight passionately often turn out to be your best friends”. –Ferdinand Marcos

Klim Voroshilov

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

Chester Nimitz

“Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue”. –Chester Nimitz

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Andrei Grechko

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

Vidkun Quisling

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

Joan of Arc

“Children say that people are sometimes hanged for speaking the truth”. –Joan of Arc

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Hideki Tojo

“It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result”. –Hideki Tojo

Hannibal

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

Zachary Taylor

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory”. –Zachary Taylor

William Wallace

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free”. –William Wallace

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

Chiang Kai-shek

“Don’t be disquieted in times of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor”. –Chiang Kai-shek

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Sepp Dietrich

“Politics is a whore. It’s too high for me… The only interest in politics is to get to know how to lead a life under the most favorable circumstances”. –Sepp Dietrich

Stonewall Jackson

“The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard”. –Stonewall Jackson

Alexander Haig

“Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”. –Alexander Haig

Ethan Allen

“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy”. –Ethan Allen

Karl Dönitz

“Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare… Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities”. –Karl Dönitz

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

Yasser Arafat

“For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers, and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African, and Latin American people would also be terrorism…” –Yasser Arafat

Mao Zedong

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun”. –Mao Zedong

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Abraham Lincoln

“You and I are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races. Whether it be right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living amongst us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated”. –Abraham Lincoln

Karl von Clausewitz

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles”. –Karl von Clausewitz

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace”. –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leonid Brezhnev

“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist, I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to actively participate in the work of our press”. –Leonid Brezhnev

Harry S. Truman

“The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs, or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist; he goes haywire. I’ve found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes”. –Harry S. Truman

William Bligh

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements”. –William Bligh

Genghis Khan

“It is not sufficient that I succeed — all others must fail”. –Genghis Khan

Erich Ludendorff

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

T.E. Lawrence

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses  of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did”. –T.E. Lawrence

Benito Mussolini

“Race! It is a feeling, not a reality… Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the ‘nobility’ of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Houston Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman”. –Benito Mussolini

Moshe Dayan

“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice”. –Moshe Dayan

Douglas MacArthur

“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within”. –Douglas MacArthur

Charles de Gaulle

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word”. –Charles de Gaulle

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world”. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Claudius

“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing”. –Claudius

Saddam Hussein

“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man”. –Saddam Hussein

Simon Bolivar

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism”. –Simon Bolivar

King Faisal I

“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement… We will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home”. –King Faisal I

Corneliu Codreanu

“The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy”. –Corneliu Codreanu

Stanislaw Leszczynski

“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for”. –Stanislaw Leszczynski

Skanderbeg

“I have not brought freedom to you, I found it here among you”. –Skanderbeg

Ulysses S. Grant

“If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail”. –Ulysses S. Grant

Hermann Göring

“We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. –Hermann Göring

Jefferson Davis

“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule”. –Jefferson Davis

John J. Pershing

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops”. –John J. Pershing

Nikita Khrushchev

“My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul”. –Nikita Khrushchev

Yitzhak Rabin

“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies”. –Yitzhak Rabin

Georgy Zhukov

“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use”. –Georgy Zhukov

Marquis de Lafayette

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties”. –Marquis de Lafayette

Varro

“No sick man’s monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won’t say it’s true”. –Varro

Lord Mountbatten

“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don’t see why my children shouldn’t be afraid of me”. –Lord Mountbatten

Ahmed Yassin

“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland”. –Ahmed Yassin

Curtis LeMay

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government, and you are fighting a people. You are not trying to fight an armed force anymore, so it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders”. –Curtis LeMay

Enver Pasha

“The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation”. –Enver Pasha

Duke of Wellington

“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained”. –Duke of Wellington

Subhas Chandra Bose

“Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth”. –Subhas Chandra Bose

Marcus Aurelius

“Do every act in life as if it was your last”. –Marcus Aurelius

Barry Goldwater

“I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” –Barry Goldwater

Ferdinand Foch

“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory”. –Ferdinand Foch

Heinz Guderian

“There are no desperate situations, only desperate people”. –Heinz Guderian

Julius Cæsar

“Men willingly believe what they wish”. –Julius Cæsar

Giuseppe Garibaldi

“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune”. –Giuseppe Garibaldi

Georges Clemenceau

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration, without the usual interval of civilization”. –Georges Clemenceau

George S. Patton

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing”. –George S. Patton

King Henry IV

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them”. –King Henry IV

David Ben-Gurion

“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism”. –David Ben-Gurion

Robert E. Lee

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself”. –Robert E. Lee

Arrian

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians; men who, for centuries, have lived soft and luxurious lives. We, of Macedon, for generations past, have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves”. –Arrian

Josef Stalin

“When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope we will use”. –Josef Stalin

Oliver Cromwell

“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you, or I, were going to be hanged”. –Oliver Cromwell

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, punish more severely”. –Napoleon Bonaparte

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“I have no religion and at times I wish all religions to the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth, and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-man”. –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Heinrich Himmler

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don’t ask for their love, only for their fear”. –Heinrich Himmler

Emiliano Zapata

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”. –Emiliano Zapata

Sun Tzu

“Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory”. –Sun Tzu

William Tecumseh Sherman

“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster”. –William Tecumseh Sherman

Augustus Cæsar

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar