2,366 Quotes About Military

Veil wouldn’t make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

Would to heaven that this accursed engine had never been invented. I had not then received those wounds which I now languish under, neither had so many valiant men been slain for the most part by pitiful fellows, and the greatest cowards; poltroons that had not dared to look those men in the face at hand, which at distance they lay dead with their confounded bullets.

We were always taught as historians, or at least I was at university, never to use the word 'inevitable', because nothing is inevitable in history. And that's true, except for German counterattack.

The ancient and the modern blended together in haunting harmony. The war looked like a dream here; a fantasy dwarfed by the sands of time.

A dokąd wyroku  Mars nie uczyni, nie ustępuj kroku.

The prince remembers his father's words- "Steal a loaf of bread, son, and they will cut your hands off, but steal an entire country and they will proclaim you their king. Humanity can never forgive mediocrity, but when audacity and brilliance combine in the right individual it can luster godlike- and they will forgive you anything, even a whole generation of boys sent off to battle for the interests of that lustrous-one".Excerpt fromVarangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga

Remember us,Should any free soul come across this place,In all the countless centuries yet to be,May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,Go tell the Spartans, passerby:That here by Spartan law, we lie.

In order to learn history right, one must listen to the right people