Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Audacity, audacity, always audacity!

信玄の兵法に、のちの勝ちを大切にするとある。それもよいが、わしは先の勝ちを大切にする。

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

Writing is only good for recording names. Swordsmanship defeats one man — that's not worth learning. I want to learn what defeats ten thousand.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

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

-- Britain's greatest naval hero

Speed is the best friend of surprise.

-- The undefeated Russian generalissimus whose three

He who does not strike first will later regret it.

-- The brilliant young commander whose daring raids destroyed the Taira clan and ended Japan's first great civil war

Whoever strives with all his might, that man we can redeem.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe