A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945) 

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945) 

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
Homer  , The Odyssey, line 1

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) 

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West 

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) 

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
Ayn Rand 

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
Anonymous