Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter... History sees in him solely the founder of a state... What weak Western European civilization thinks about me is of no consequence.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.

Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.