Military Quotes

What Civil War general once said, "War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over?"

• Stonewall Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• Joseph Hooker
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• U.S. Grant

What writer is reputed to have said, "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf?"

• Mark Twain
• Ernest Hemingway
• Leo Tolstoy
• George Orwell
• John LeCarre

What world leader once said, "The Americans will always do the right thing…after they've exhausted all the alternatives?"

• Charles de Gaulle
• Winston Churchill
• Tony Blair
• Nelson Mandela
• Mikhail Gorbachev