"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."

"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."

"They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

"Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished."

"Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio."

"Un prigioniero di guerra è un uomo che cerca di ucciderti, non ci riesce, dopo di che ti chiede di non ucciderlo."

"Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times."

"War will find us whether we are ready or not."