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И мене ми е досадно како и на повеќето вас да ги чекам манекените од Италија да нападнат. Со цел да ве расположам и за да ви помине времето најдов некои изреки на познати Македонци низ светот и нивното размислување за војната хахахаха. Незнам за сите ама тие што се Anonymous сигурно се Македонци гарантирам.

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"Fortune favors the brave."
- Terence

"It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold."
- Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell

"Audacity, audacity, always audacity."
(English translation of the French Proverb)
- General George Patton Jr's Favorite Saying

"Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!"
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Hard pressed on my right; my left is in retreat. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking. Attaquez!"
- General Ferdinand Foch (to General Joffre during Battle of the Marne)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belong to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt ("The Man in the Arena")

"In peace nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, disguise fair nature with hard favour'd rage. . ."
- William Shakespeare ("Henry V")

"I have not yet begun to fight."
- Captain John Paul Jones (aboard the Bon Homme Richard)

"When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve."
- Carl Von Clausewitz

The Coward Dies 1,000 Deaths, The Brave Man But One

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment."
- Napoleon Bonaparte ("Maxims")

"Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone."
- Anonymous

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
- Winston Churchill

"Who Dares, Wins. Who Sweats, Wins. Who Plans, Wins."
- British Special Air Service (SAS)

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."
- Admiral Chester Nimitz (on the quality of the men under his command)

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash."
- General Douglas MacArthur
(as is the difference between the courageous and the coward -EM)

"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender."
- Winston Churchill

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Nathan Hale

"Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (on why he left men exposed to the enemy in Russia)

"When cities burn and armies turn and flee in disarray, cowards will cry: 'Tis best to fly, and fight another day'. But warriors know in their marrow, When they die and fall, 'tis best to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all.'"
- Anonymous

"Yea, though I walk through the 'Valley of the Shadow of Death'. I shall fear no evil. For it is I, that is the evilest bastard in the valley. My gun and my bayonet, they comfort me. I fear no one, I let them fear me. My fighting spirit runneth over!"
- Anonymous

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
- Robert Oppenheimer

"Never forget that a corpse never cares how it got to be so cold. Commanders should always keep in mind that they wage war through a wall of human blood, sweat, and tears whose pain they can never truly feel and whose loss they can never truly know. For they are become death: they are the destroyer of worlds."
- Ellen Mogensen

"War: that mad game the world so loves to play."
- Jonathan Swift

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
- Arthur Koestler

"Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. Gold help me, I do love it so!"
- General George Patton

"It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it."
- General Robert E. Lee

"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
- General William T. Sherman

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. . . . If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
- Mao Zedong

"Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington

"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens."
- Oliver Cromwell's Soldiers ("Humble Representation")

"I make war on the living, not the dead."
- Charles V (when advised to hang Martin Luther's corpse on the gallows)

""It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, And chuck him out the brute,
But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before!
The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."
- Rudyard Kipling

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge

He Who Hesitates Has Already Lost the Battle

"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of War."
- William Shakespeare ("Julius Caesar")

"I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men."
- Nathan Bedford Forrest

"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."
- General George Patton Jr

"I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."
- General George Patton Jr

"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
- John Paul Jones (later adopted by the US Navy's Special Boat Units)

"If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun."
- James Baker

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
- General George Patton Jr

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best." (which Napoleon summarized as "God is on the side with the best artillery!")
- Voltaire ("The Piccini Notebooks")

"Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength."
- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
- Marquis de Acerba

"The most certain way of insuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavoring to gain ground."
- Frederick the Great

"Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!"
- General George Patton

"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
- Ngo Dinh Diem (popularized on his becoming President of Vietnam,
paraphrased from Henri du Vergier 1794)

"Kill one, terrify a thousand."
- Sun Tzu ("Art of War")

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
- General George Patton Jr

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
- Ernest Hemmingway

"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
- Winston Churchill

"It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones!"
- Marshal Maurice de Saxe ("Mes Reveries")

"Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best."
- Frederick II of Prussia ("Instructions for his Generals")

"Stonewall Jackson would rather lose one man to hard marching, than lose five men to hard battle. Perspiration saves blood!"
- Colonel Marttinen (to his tired and battle weary men in Infantry Regiment 61)

"He who gets there the fastest with the mostest wins."
- Anonymous

"Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest."
- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy,
but, by God, they terrify me."
- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington ("Dispatch, Aug 1810")