“We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.”— Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)
“We are reduced to the alternative of fighting our way out of this garrison... or of surrendering the town and the garrison.”— Benjamin Lincoln
“There was no alternative for Lee, and the great soldier accepted the crushing fate to which his army was doomed.”— John Brown Gordon
“The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself.”— Eugen Herrigel