凡兵之道莫過乎一。一者能独往独来。

An army's strength lies not in numbers, but in discipline.

A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat. Compassion makes allies; cruelty makes enemies.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday