War in Leadership Quotes

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."

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

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bleed the deepest wounds and scars of war."

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed."

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."