The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews
of war.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
War is the matter which fills all history, and consequently the only or
almost the only view in which we can see the external of political
society is in a hostile shape; and the only actions to which we have
always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the
destruction of one another.--_Burke._
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on
their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory
will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.--_Gibbon._
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment,--of a thought: the
hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other
and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental
flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the
object.--_Napoleon._