War

In war, truth is the first casualty.
-Aeschylus

Dulce bellum inexpertis. ("War is a delightful to those who have no experience of it")
-Erasmus

I did not mean to be killed today.
-dying words of the Vicomte de Turenne, at the Battle of Salzbach, 1675

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle one.
-The Dike of Wellington, in a dispatch from Waterloo, 1815

A brave Captain is a root, out of which as branches the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
-Sir Phillip Sidney