In the Long Run Luck is awarded to the efficient

Quote by Helmeth Von Moltke

Topics: War Quotes

Every war is a national misfortune

Every war is a national misfortune

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has...

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has...

Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and...

Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and...

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has...

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has...

War would end if the dead could return.

War would end if the dead could return.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name...

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name...

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with...

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with...

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What...

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What...

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in...

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in...

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy...

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy...

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity

Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander...

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander...

It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against...

It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against...

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed...

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man...

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood