Patriots, Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

War, Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

War, Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)

War, Chester W. Nimitz

Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

- Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)

War, Ulysses S. Grant

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

War, Croesus

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus (595 BC–547? BC)

War, Sun-Tzu

知彼知己百戰不殆。

- 孫子

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

- Sun-Tzu (孫子)

AFI #012 Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (1979)

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like … victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

- Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now (1979)

The bolded line is ranked #12 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.