
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 147
A collection of quotes on the topic of troop, war, use, doing.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 147
“Troops are not to be led to battle unless confident of success.”
Numquam ad certamen publicum produxeris militem, nisi cum eum uideris sperare uictoriam.
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"
Context: An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness. Troops are not to be led to battle unless confident of success. (General Maxims)
Babur writing about the battle against the Rajput Confederacy led by Maharana Sangram Singh of Mewar. In Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 547-572.
Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XII · Attacking with Fire
Source: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
Reported in Christian Crusade Weekly (March 3, 1974) as having been said be Zhou to Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1965; reported as a likely misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 133.
Disputed
This is widely reported on many sites as coming from the Bilderberg Conference (1991) Evians, France, purportedly recorded by a Swiss diplomat, but no such recording has ever been provided.
Misattributed
Letter http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bakunin/letters/toherzenandogareff.html to Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen and Ogareff from San Francisco (3 October 1861); published in Correspondance de Michel Bakounine (1896) edited by Michel Dragmanov
Source: The Art of War, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths
2004, Democratic National Convention speech (July 2004)
Notes on general orders to the troops, (20 October 1781), as quoted in The Writings of George Washington (1835) edited by Jared Sparks, Vol. 8, p. 189
1780s
Attributed as a quote in Charles W. Hudlin, "Morality and the Military Profession: Problems and Solutions", Military Ethics (National Defense University Press, 1987) http://books.google.com/books?id=B9EvXhH1ZVAC&pg=PA83; but Hudlin cites the biographical dramatization Patton (1970 film) which does not purport to use Patton's actual words.
Misattributed
Euronews interview on issue of Nagorno-Karabakh (02 February 2010) http://www.euronews.com/2010/02/02/interview-with-ilham-aliyev-president-of-azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh
2011, Address on the natural and nuclear energy disasters in Japan (March 2011)
Letter to Ulysses S. Grant http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/grant.htm (13 July 1863), Washington, D.C.
1860s
Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 126, Princeton University Press, 1981.
Muqaddimah (1377)
after Monet's death
Source: Denis Rouart (1972) Claude Monet, p. 22 : About the first steps in his career
Quoted in "World War II: Europe" - Page 44 - by Reg Grant, Various - 2004
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
Floor Statement on Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007 (30 January 2007)
2007
Ch XIII : Now or Never - Alam Halfa, p. 285.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Interview on Iraq with the Associated Press (30 January 2007) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16896534/
2007
2016, State of the Union address (January 2016)
On <i>The Charlie Rose Show</i> giving his opinion of the media's coverage of the Rwanda Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWNS4MkSpYE
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 37.
Letter to the President of Congress (9 February 1776)
1770s
Floor Statement on President's Decision to Increase Troops in Iraq (19 January 2007)
2007
The Victoria Cross: For Valour (2003)
April 20, 1945 in a meeting with Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress.
2014, 25th Anniversary of Polish Freedom Day Speech (June 2014)
December 16, 1942. Quoted in "The Second World War: A Complete History" - Page 386 - by Sir Martin Gilbert - History - 2004
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Statement at Paris (23 January 1814)
“As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.”
2016, Disabled American Veterans Convention (August 2016)
Context: Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
Source: 1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
Context: The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction and the hand of the Executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them. In a word, the people will save their Government if the Government itself will do its part only indifferently well.
Remarks by the President on the Iran Nuclear Deal at American University in Washington, D.C. (August 05, 2015) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/08/05/remarks-president-iran-nuclear-deal
2015
Cited in De Laugier, Vicissitudes of the Italian people from 1801 to 1815, to. X, Firenze, 1836, p. 43 – Aless. Zanoli, About the Italian army, historical-statistical outline from 1796 to 1814, vol. II, Milano, 1845, p. 145.
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
Letter to George Washington (November 1779)
Unidentified press conference, 1968
Featured in Pat Paulsen for President (1968), part 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbP0ufyax5A&feature=relmfu, 01:01 ff (10:01 ff in full program)
May 10, 2011
The Opie and Anthony Radio show
Radio address http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070113-2.html discussing his plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq (January 13, 2007)
2000s, 2007
Quoted in "The Russian Army: Its Men, Its Leaders and Its Battles" - Page 82 - by Walter Kerr - History - 2005
The Victoria Cross: For Valour (2003)
Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), Mir‘at-i-Mas‘udi in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians, Vol. II. p. 524-547
Khafi Khan, Muntakhab-ul-Lubab, pp. 245-46. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 6
Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-10-14
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians, quoted in * 2011-10-15
Rush Limbaugh on Lord's Resistance Army: "Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians"
Blake
Houshell
Foreign Policy
0015-7228
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/15/rush_limbaugh_on_lords_resistance_army_obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians
Defending the Lord's Resistance Army, a terrorist group criticised for gross human rights abuses in Uganda.
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
"The People, Yes" (1936)
"Re-Thinking The War II" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/rethinking_the__5.html, The Daily Dish (8 May 2007)
Republican Convention Speech, 2004.
2003–2007 Governor of Massachusetts
Anastacia: Speaks frankly about her new body, finding love again and using her voice to inspire other http://www.anastacia.com/hello-magazine/, Hello Magazine, April 14, 2014.
General Quotes
In response to the lost explosives in the Al Qa'qaa high explosives controversy, as quoted in NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (29 October 2004) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec04/explosives_10-29.html
2002-09-08
Its' a Good Time for War
Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/globe_stories/090802_hitchens_2.htm: On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
2000s, 2002
Allies 'seize most of Baghdad airport' http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles210b.htm, April 4, 2003
2003
An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (1787).
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67.
On Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22
"How the Nazis Won the War" in How the World Works, p. 193
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, 1994
From a letter to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, written while aboard HMS Victory and dated (14 March 1805), quoted in full in The Naval History of Great Britain from the year 1783 to 1822 by Captain Edward Pelham Brenton (1824), Vol III, p. 406
1800s
"Alex Jones English British Accent imitates Police" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGgK9ygGluk, The Alex Jones Show, 13 May 2013.
2013
Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)
Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)
Letter to George Washington (September 1778)
Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/us/ben-shapiro-conservative.html (November 23, 2017), '.
Vol. 4, Part 1. Pg.20. Translated by W.P Dickson
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 1
Source: Remarks to the National Press Club (9 January 2007), as quoted in "Official: First wave of troops to Iraq by Jan. 30" at MSNBC (9 January 2007) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546093/
Quoted in "Singapore, 1941-1942" - Page 269 - by Louis Allen - History - 1993
Speech to the Constitutional Convention, (June 2, 1787).
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 101