“I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.” WarNovelRichMilitaryRevolutionAreasCivil WarFarmsKentuckyMilitary History Author:Steve Zahn
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” MeanWarFightingMilitaryKillingCivil WarAmerican Civil War Author:Nathan Bedford Forrest
“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.” ChildrenWarMotherAliveMilitaryHealthyExtraordinaryShirtsCivil WarDictatorshipT ShirtExtraordinary ThingsDefyingWhereabouts Author:Liya Kebede
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.” ArtWarHardEnoughMovingFightingPeaceSimpleEnemyViolenceMilitaryStrikesCivil WarGrantsArt Of WarKeep MovingGreat WarNavalGreat MilitaryUnited States MilitaryViolence And War Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.” MeanWarPoliticalFeltMilitarySoldierAffectionProfessionCivil WarGrantsFondnessOld Soldiers Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.” IfsMenWarFailingMilitaryObedienceCivil WarGrantsBad Ass Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” IfsFightingLinesMilitarySummerCivil WarGrantsPropose Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.” WarHardMilitaryDrinkingCivil WarRidingCronies Author:Kliment Voroshilov
“The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.” IdeasWarHelpingUsedSidesFireAirMilitaryMovementDirectHotUnionsCivil WarSpySurveillanceBalloonsArtilleryTrackingHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Michael Hastings
“Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.” CommonClearMilitaryFactorsCommunismCivil WarGesturesBourgeoisRomanticism Author:Max Frisch
“The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.” MenMindFirstsIdeasWarEndsAmericaOrderNationsEconomicMilitaryConflictEnglandRoseCivil WarFoundingClashColonyFeudalismEconomic OrderRaleigh Author:J. F. C. Fuller
“Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more credit for it than I deserve. Most men will think I planned it all from the first; but it was not so. I simply took advantage of circumstances as they were presented to me in the providence of God. I feel that His hand led me - let us give Him the glory.” ThinkingMenGivingFeelsFirstsWarHandsSuccessfulMilitaryMovementCircumstancesGloryDeserveAdvantageCreditCivil WarProvidenceGreat Success Author:Stonewall Jackson
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” WarCountryEarthFightingPeaceRightsMilitarySoldierCivil WarPatriotismPatriotVolunteerReliabilityWorth Fighting ForConfederatePatriot Day Author:Stonewall Jackson
“What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.” ThinkingWarStuffTermPathMilitaryCircumstancesSoldierCivil WarTargetBeatenPresentationBackdropBeaten PathOff The Beaten Path Author:Gary Cole
“The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.” WarEnoughUseCausesEasyPresidentInterestTeachMilitaryLessonsWeaponsStrikesBarackCivil WarTargetRegimesSyriaDiscouragedPresident Barack ObamaAssadBe EncouragedRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsFirstsWellsWarWantedSidesFourMilitaryAmountBattleAidsOpeningPlanesWar Of The WorldsCivil WarAlliesWorld War IiFour YearsAirplaneWorld War ITroopsUniformsNaziTanksSympatheticFrancoSpanish Civil WarFrancisco Franco Author:Adam Hochschild
“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.” YearsEarthForceMilitaryDrinkThousandEuropeArmyBlueTrackTreasureTrialsCivil WarChestsThousand YearsAsiaCommandersOhioRidges Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy