Attack Quotes

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence. (Livy)
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. View quote
George W. Bush
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. View quote
Stephen Harper
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. View quote
Dale Carnegie
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. View quote
Art Buchwald
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. View quote
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. View quote
Winston Churchill
Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. View quote
Sun Tzu
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. (Sun Tzu)
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. View quote
George S. Patton
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. View quote
Jane Austen
Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Abba Anthony said, "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'" View quote
Anthony the Great
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. (Russell Crowe)
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. View quote
Amy Tan