"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." - Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Winston Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves." - Joseph Stalin
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George S. Patton
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." - General George S. Patton
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General George S. Patton
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S. Patton
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." - Ernest Hemingway
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." - Francois Fenelon
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace." - Ulysses S. Grant
"We happy few, we band of brothers/For he today that sheds his blood with me/Shall be my brother." - William Shakespeare, King Henry V
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." - Thomas A. Edison
"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes." - James Morrow
"If we don't end war, war will end us." - H. G. Wells
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts." - Cicero
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment." - Andre Maurois
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." - Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet
"He conquers who endures." - Persius
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" - Emiliano Zapata
"You know the real meaning of peace only if you have been through the war." - Kosovar
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In war there is no substitute for victory." - General Douglas MacArthur
"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory." - Georges Clemenceau
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