Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

Then we shall fight in the shade.

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

The greatest warrior in Japan.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Act, and God will act.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen

I must carry through what God commands. I am sure of nothing but I must go on.

-- The 'Lion of the North' who revolutionized European warfare through combined-arms tactics and transformed Sweden into a continental great power during the Thirty Years' War

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.

-- The American general who commanded in the Pacific War and oversaw Japan's postwar occupation