I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

The more troops, the better I command them.

-- The greatest military mind of early imperial China, whose campaigns established the Han dynasty (c. 231-196 BCE). Han Xin's tactical innovations — including the legendary 'battle with backs to the river' — demonstrated that battlefield psychology and terrain exploitation could overcome any numerical disadvantage. His reward

Let us put an end to this war. For we know how to win battles but not how to use our victories.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

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

A conqueror must wield both the sword and the law.

-- The Turco-Mongol conqueror who built an empire fro

What is won by the sword must be defended by the sword.

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut

The greatest joy of a conqueror is to drive his enemies before him, to seize their horses and treasure, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

-- The founder of the Mongol Empire who created histo