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Revised and updated to include more than 1,100 quotations, The Military Quotation Book brings together the wisdom of fallen heroes, living politicians, honored statesman, and rebellious writers-quoting official edicts as well as off-the-record remarks.Among the most authoritative-and the most opinionated-are- General Douglas MacArthur: "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."- Winston Churchill: "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities."- Joseph Stalin: "Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."- Voltaire: "An admiral has to be put to death now and then to encourage the others."- Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Nothing is easy in war."- Franklin D. Roosevelt: "A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.



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