Quotes About Fighting The Last War

#1. Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Jay Samit

#2. We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.

Max Brooks

#4. If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Will Rogers

#6. The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years
five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

Preston William Slosson

#7. Fight to the last gasp.

William Shakespeare

#8. It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

Robin Olds

#9. In Japan if you say "the war," people know you mean World War II, because that was the last one that Japan fought in. In America it's different. America is constantly fighting wars all over the place, so you have to be more specific.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. The last day of the war provided chilling closure. The ending, in its ferocity, bloodiness, and uselessness, contained the entire war in microcosm. The fighting went on for the hollowest of reasons: no one knew how to stop it.

Joseph E. Persico

#11. If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans Bethe

#12. The war ... must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks ... unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.

Jefferson Davis

#13. There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

Maxime Weygand

#14. The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

Georges Clemenceau

#15. The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages ... onward, to victory!

Joseph Stalin

#16. Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

Nick Hornby

#17. We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

Ronald Reagan