Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The secret of war lies in the communications.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
One might as well try to charge through a wall.
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
Without cavalry, battles are without result.
I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.
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