In difficult ground, press on; On hemmed-in ground, use subterfuge; In death ground, fight - Sun Tzu
War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror - ancient combat adage
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon - Napoleon Bonaparte
In war there is no prize for the runner-up - General Omar Bradley
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few - Winston Churchill
Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato
The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters - Ghengis Khan