Military Strategist Quotes

Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.