No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Thank God, I have done my duty.

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

I shall give Japan a good laundering.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

The Empire's fate depends on this battle. Let every man do his utmost duty.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Then we shall fight in the shade.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

I must carry through what God commands. I am sure of nothing but I must go on.

-- The 'Lion of the North' who revolutionized European warfare through combined-arms tactics and transformed Sweden into a continental great power during the Thirty Years' War