I would sell London if I could find a buyer.

Untie him and let him go free.

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

Then we shall fight in the shade.

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

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the ranks.

-- 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

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

-- The French emperor whose military genius reshaped

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

-- America's most aggressive World War II general, whose Third Army's lightning advance across France in 1944 demonstrated that speed and audacity in exploitation could collapse enemy resistance faster than methodical advance (1885-1945). Patton believed he