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“Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.”

Way Faces Taken Violence Army Threat Conqueror Afghan

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.”

Men Should Humans Mean Whole Use Christian Heaven Dark Liberty Taken Circumstances Blessing Judgment Army Foolishness Our Founding Fathers Prudent Us Founding Fathers

Author:John Hancock

“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

Men Taken Ordinary Army Died Iron Prisoner Ordinary Man Bronze

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Different Hands Results Views Taken Position Red Destruction Should Have Army Campaigns Fighter Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided Red Army

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.”

Millions Taken Fire Saws Danger Spring Army Surprise Forgotten China Squares Demonstration Tiananmen Square

Author:Jung Chang

“It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.”

Ifs Mind Mean Has Beens Said Two Purpose Taken Crosses Army Superiors Inferiors Variance

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind May War Done Would Be Pain Law Spirit Individual Taken Expression Citizens Army Soldier Corporate Look Up Customs Regulation Professionalism Guilds Esprit De Corps

Author:Carl von Clausewitz