"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"I would rather he had given me one more division"
Rommel, when Hitler made him a Field Marshall

"The man who can't make a mistake can't make anything."
Abraham Lincoln

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
General Ulysses S. Grant

"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword."
General Ulysses S. Grant

"The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers."
Thucydides, "History of The Peloponnesian War", book 2, 404 BC.

"Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry."
Oliver Cromwell
 
“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking"
Oliver Cromwell

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
Marcus Aurelius

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
Gen Douglas MacArthur

"Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed"
Macarthur, August 1950 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff