Quotes about Strategy
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
— Anonymous
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
— George Washington
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
— Norman Vincent Peale
When there is no vision, people perish.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.
— George W. Bush
War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.
— Ulysses S. Grant
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
— Margaret Atwood
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
— Winston Churchill