Quotes about war
war real paper
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper. ... Carl von Clausewitz
war lying battle
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.
war people citizens
In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.
war exercise matter
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
war military different
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
war mean politics
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
war military mind
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.
war men leader
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
war affair desperate
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
war distance looks
In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.
war suffering domain
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
war mean politics
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
war simple doe
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
war continuation
War is merely a continuation of politics,
war twilight data
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect of a fog - gives things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.
war age peculiar
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
war lines campaigns
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
war scales total-war
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
war simple friction
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
war violence chance
War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.
war hands limits
War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit....
war preparation preparing-for-war
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
war mean independent
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
war mind firsts
No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.
war character government
To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.
war forever what-if
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. Carl Sandburg
war wind feet
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . .
war years two
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.
war what-if international-peace
What if they gave a war and nobody came?
war military thinking
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god. C. S. Lewis
war law reign
War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law. Calvin Coolidge
war world remember
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
war men america
America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.