Quotes about war
war army victory
Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders. Napoleon Bonaparte
war people terrible
War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
war enemy destruction
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
war character balance
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
war important command
Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
war navigation needs
The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
war battle sixty
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
war fire essentials
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
war men important
Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
war men two
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
war long soldier
Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
war glasses mind
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
war army care
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
war rights people
When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.
war military three
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
war needs shouting
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
war inspire battle
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
war army victory
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
war enemy desire
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
war school soldier
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
war mistake long
He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
war enemy what-if
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
war food army
An army marches on its stomach.
war mean sight
Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
war eye men
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
war men littles
A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
war my-family treats
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
war sides artillery
God is on the side with the best artillery
war believe egypt
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
war men alternatives
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
war circumstances remedy
To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
war transition offensive
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
warfare surrender logical
The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.