Famous Military Quotes

Who first uttered the words "we have met the enemy and they are ours" in a dispatch to General William Henry Harrison after the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie?

• David Farragut
• Isaac Hull
• Oliver Hazard Perry
• Isaac Brock
• Stephen Decatur

What despot cynically stated that "the death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic?

• Joseph Stalin
• Adolph Hitler
• Pol Pot
• Hideki Tojo
• Idi Amin

What California Governor is credited with saying in a speech before the U.S. Senate that "the first casualty when war comes, is truth"?

• Leland Stanford
• Hiram Johnson
• Pat Brown
• Ronald Reagan
• Jerry Brown