It's said that the top Japanese ace of WW2, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, summed up aerial combat as, "You're either an ace or a target." He was killed when the transport plane he was a passenger on was shot down.
After hearing of a British propaganda article entitled "Tobruk can take it!" Leslie Morshead, commander of the 9th Australian Division commented, "We're not here to take it, we're here to give it."
Tobruk, 2 Australian soldiers look over the battlefield which was littered with German dead and their destroyed equipment. Soldier 1 - You know what? I don't even hate them. Soldier 2 - No one said you had to hate them, just kill them.
"Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?" - extorting an Officer during the building of Hitler's 'Atlantic Wall'. Gen Irwin Rommel "Maybe there are 5,000, maybe 10,000 Nazi bastards in their concrete foxholes before the Third Army. Now if Ike stops holding Monty's hand and gives me some supplies, I'll go through the Siegfried Line like %*$# through a goose."-General George Patton "Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all." 
- Benito Mussolini "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Attributed to General George Patton Jr
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means." "Politics is the womb in which war develops." Karl Von Clausewitz "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." Sun Tzu
