If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

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

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

During a few days‘ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

A siege is an act of war.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.