But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far
- Lt. General F. Browning about Operation Market Garden

There are no magic ways to victory against powerful enemies
- Correlli Barnett

Ever forward, but slowly
- Field Marshal Gebhard Liebrecht von Blücher, Prinz von Wahlstadt

If peace cannot be be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace
- Lord John Russell

People who think of retreating before a battle has been fought ought to have stayed home
- Marshal Michel Ney, Duc d'Elchingen

Better a ruined land than a lost land
- Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland and Mecklenburg

A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold
- Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, Earl Wavell of Keren