No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his

War is not won by victory.

No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don’t suppose that’s the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.

But I didn’t risk my life to bring democracy to Iraq. I risked my life for my buddies, to protect my friends and fellow countrymen. I went to war for my country, not Iraq. My country sent me out there so that bullshit wouldn’t make its way back to our shores.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more.
... George S. Patton

It is not the American soldiers duty do die for his country. It is the American soldiers duty to make the enemy die for his country.