I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.

Without stones there is no arch.

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- Zhuge Liang

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- Edward, the Black Prince

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

-- Joan of Arc

The whole art of war consists of getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

-- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

-- Belisarius