The typical staff officer is a man past middle life, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, noncommittal, with eyes like a codfish, polite in contact, but at the same time unresponsive, cool, calm and as damnably composed as a concrete post or plaster of Paris cast; a human petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm or the friendly germ; minus bowels, passions or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to hell.

- Gen George S. Patton, Jr

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The Allied high command's dominating thought was to make sure of success, a thought that led it to use orthodox methods and material. As a result it was almost always possible for me, despite inadequate means of reconnaissance and scanty reports, to foresee the next strategic or tactical move of my opponent.

- German Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, explaining why Allied casualties were so high and Allied progress so slow in the Italian campaign, 1943

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How terrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

- Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, in a radio broadcast, 27 September 1938 referring to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia

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