Speed is the best friend of surprise.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.

Hard in training, easy in battle.

The bullet is a fool; the bayonet is a fine fellow.

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

A million hearts as one.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

-- 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