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.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Life is warfare.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

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.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

London is a roost for every bird.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

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.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

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

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

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

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

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

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.

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

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

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.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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

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.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

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

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 purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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.

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

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

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

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

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

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.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

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.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

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.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

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

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

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

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.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.