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Michael A. Stackpole is the New York Times bestselling author of many titles in the Star Wars universe, including many of the Star WarsX-Wing novels and the New Jedi Order: Dark Tide novels Onslaught and Ruin. When not chained to a desk madly fighting deadlines, he plays indoor soccer, rides a mountain bike, and reads, but not all at the same time. Stackpole lives in Arizona with Liz Danforth and a small pack of Cardigan Welsh corgis.… (mais)
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense. -Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
This maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. — Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. —Lord Burghley, Advice to His Son
An ally has to be watched just like an enemy. — Leon Trotsky
Do not repeat the tactics that have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
O! what a fall was there, my countrymen; Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Better a known enemy than a forced ally. — Napoleon Bonaparte, Political Aphorisms
They say soldiers and lawyers could never thrive both in one shire. - Barnaby Rich, The Anatomy of Ireland
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness. Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! —William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. - Vegetius, De Re Miutari
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. - Frederick the Great
... Self-preservation, the first law of states even more than of men; for no government is empowered to assent to that last sacrifice, which the individual may make for the noblest of motives. —Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History
No plan survives contact with the enemy. —Helmuth von Moltke
I am more afraid of our mistakes than our enemies' designs. - Pericles
Wars are caused either by women or priests. — Czech proverb
It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet. — Frederick the Great in a letter to Voltaire
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson, Works, Vol. VI
To delight in war is a merit in a soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysses S. Grant
The steady operations of war against a regular and disciplined army can only be successfully conducted by a force of the same kind. - Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, 1787, XXV
I have never met or heard of troops who can withstand a night attack from the rear. - Bernard Newman, The Cavalry Came Through
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy. — Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. — Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
War is much too serious a business to be left to military men. - Attributed to Tallyrand
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
An army is of little value in the field unless wise counsels prevail at home. - Cicero, De Officiis
You may be obliged to wage war, but you are not obliged to use poisoned arrows. — Baltasar Gracian Y Morales, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer. - Attributed to Chabrais
The conventional army loses if it does not win, the guerilla wins if he does not lose. — Henry Kissinger, 20th century diplomat
The unknown is the governing condition of war. — Ferdinand Foch, Principles of War
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. — The Duke of Wellington, Irish-born military leader and statesman
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. — Douglas MacArthur
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! - II Samuel I.XXV
Guerrilla war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge. — T.E. Lawrence, The Science of Guerrilla Warfare
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the merest trifle decides a battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte, Letter to Barry E. O'Meara, 9 November 1816
There are two gates of Sleep, one of which is held made of horn and by it real ghosts have easy egress; the other shining fashioned of gleaming white ivory, but deceptive are the visions the Underworld sends that way to the light. — Virgil, Aeneid
History will absolve me. — Fidel Castro
But the Persians suffered from that most dangerous tendency in war: a wish to kill but not to die in the process. - Herodotus
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Nothing helps a fighting force than correct information. Moreover it should be in perfect order and done well by capable personnel. - Che Guevara, Memorandum
Nobody blunders twice in war. - Latin proverb
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed or the number of men killed or captured, but in the number he keeps watching. — John Singieton Mosby, War Reminiscences
Loyalty is the marrow of honor. — Paul von Hindenburg, Out of My Life
Laws are dumb in time of war. - Cicero, Pro Milone
Military action without politics is like a tree without roots. — Attributed to Ho Chi Minh
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. — James Anthony Froude, Oceana
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 wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum of time. — George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it is worth. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth. - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
We have not yet lost this war, but we are overdrawn on the Bank of Miracles. - W. J. Brown
Of war men will ask its outcome, not its cause. - Seneca, Hercules Furens
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
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If this is the omen that marks 3058, it'll definitely be an interesting year."
Michael A. Stackpole is the New York Times bestselling author of many titles in the Star Wars universe, including many of the Star WarsX-Wing novels and the New Jedi Order: Dark Tide novels Onslaught and Ruin. When not chained to a desk madly fighting deadlines, he plays indoor soccer, rides a mountain bike, and reads, but not all at the same time. Stackpole lives in Arizona with Liz Danforth and a small pack of Cardigan Welsh corgis.
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