"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D Roosevelt, US
"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me."
Duke of Wellington, GB
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge, US
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon Bonaparte, FR
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Julius Ceasar, Rome
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson, US
"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
Arthur Koestler, UK
"When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen".
George Washington, US
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them".
Napoleon Bonaparte, FR
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George Patton, US
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living".
John F Kennedy, US
"Let him who desires peace prepare for war".
Vegetius, Roman (4th Century)
"I have nothing to offer but book, toil, tears and sweat."
Winston Churchill, UK
"The number of medals on an officer's breat varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line."
Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
"God is not on the side of the battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best".
Voltaire, FR
"Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy".
Helvetius
"In war there is no substitute for victory"
General Douglas MacArthur, US
"There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
Niccolo Machiavelli, IT
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Robert Lewis Stevenson
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become a oyster."
Theodore Roosevelt, US
"We make war that we may live in peace."
Aristotle
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in the revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
Mao Zedong, China
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the worked are so formidable as the will and moral and courage of free men and women. It is a weapon adversaries in today's world do not have".
Ronald Reagan, US