your favourite military-related quotation?

Question

feel free to share it, I like Sun Zi, murphy's laws of battlefield and serious quotations from steel panthers

Answer 1

There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
~ Abraham Lincoln

“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.”
Albert Einstein

“Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.”
Blake Clark

“All war is deception.”
Sun Tzu

“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.”
Sun Tzu

“Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.”
Chris Hedges

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer 2

"BECAUSE I FLY"


I laugh more than other men
I look up and see more than they
I know how the clouds feel
What it's like to have the blue in my lap,
to look down on birds,
to feel freedom in a thing called the stick...
who but I can slice between God's billowed legs
and feel then laugh and crash with His step
Who else has seen the unlimbed peaks?
The rainbow's secret?
The real reason birds sing?
Because I Fly, I envy no man on earth

-Anonymous

Answer 3

If a man does his best, what else is there?

General George Patton Jr.

Answer 4

Rudyard Kipling's poem, Epitaphs of the War, verse IV, "An Only Son:"

"I have slain none but my mother, She (Blessing her slayer) died of grief for me."


Kipling too, lost his only son in World War I.