Quotes![edit]

These are in no particular order.

Iosif Stalin[edit]

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
The greatest delight is to mark one's enemy, prepare everything, avenge oneself thoroughly, and then go to sleep.

Crusader Motto's[edit]

Deus Vult. (God wills it.)

Adolf Hitler[edit]

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilised.
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Saint Thomas Aquinas[edit]

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.

Ghengis Khan[edit]

No. To crush your enemies, and see them fall at your feet - to take their horses and belongings, and to hear the lamentation of their women. That is the best life.
Walls are no stronger than the men that defend them.

Sultan Alp Arslan of the Seljuks[edit]

I love war, because in the end there is victory.

Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottomans[edit]

He who fears losing, will always lose.

Arab Proverbs[edit]

Those who draw the sword of disobediance are slain by it.

Erwin Rommel[edit]

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both.

Arnaud Amaury[edit]

Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. (Kill them! for the Lord knows those who are His own.)

Sun Tzu (from the Art of War)[edit]

The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. /.../ Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Gaius Julius Caesar[edit]

Veni. Vidi. Vici. (I came. I saw. I conquered.)

Pope John Paul II[edit]

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

George S. Patton[edit]

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Ulysses S. Grant[edit]

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

H. G. Wells[edit]

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Abraham Lincoln[edit]

The only good part of a war is its ending.

Plato[edit]

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Winston Churchill[edit]

You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Albert Einstein[edit]

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Chuck Reid[edit]

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Voltaire[edit]

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Henry Kissinger[edit]

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Douglas Adams[edit]

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Napoleon Bonaparte[edit]

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
A true man hates no one.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)[edit]

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
The goal of socialism is communism.
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Charles de Gaulle[edit]

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
And don't forget to get killed.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
France cannot be France without greatness.
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power,
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
You'll live. Only the best get killed.

Isaac Asimov[edit]

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.