Total War Quotes

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

War is the trade of kings.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

A popular Government without popular information nor the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

In matters of style swim with the current, in matters of principle stand like a rock.

The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.