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  • Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

    Business   War   Fighting  
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

    Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”
  • The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

    Peace   War   Yield  
    "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.
  • Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
  • The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

    Fear   Truth   Tyrants  
  • To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

    Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books
  • To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

    Art   War   Army  
    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

    Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”
  • The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

    Change   War   Fighting  
  • If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

    Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

    Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502
  • In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

    "Marlborough; his life and times".
  • When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

  • You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

    Change   Giving Up   War  
    Hansard 13 May 1940, col. 1502
  • Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

    War   Fighting   Army  
    Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

    In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4
  • To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

    Winston S. Churchill (2014). “The Unwritten Alliance”, p.412, RosettaBooks
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  • If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

    War   Air   Presidential  
  • Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  • In war there is no substitute for victory.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
  • Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

    Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941
  • The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

    "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.
  • 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.

    Strength   Peace   War  
    "The Art of War". Chapter III: Strategic Attack. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.
  • Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

    Strength   Peace   War  
    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

    Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940
  • For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

    Business   War   Army  
    Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media
  • If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

    Art   War   Fighting  
    Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com
  • The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

    Art   Crazy   War  
    Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace
  • Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

    Peace   War   Believe  
    Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
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