quotes_quote_onscreen_338 In war, men are nothing, one man is everything. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_339 In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_34 Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_340 In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_341 I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_342 I engage and after that I see what to do. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_343 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_344 He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_345 Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_346 Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_347 From these pyramids, forty centuries gaze down upon you. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_348 Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_349 England is a nation of shopkeepers. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_35 In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_350 Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_351 Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_352 At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_353 An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_354 An army marches on its stomach. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_355 All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_356 A starving army is actually worse than none. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_357 A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_358 A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_359 A leader is a dealer in hope. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_36 Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_360 Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_361 It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_362 Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_363 Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_364 To know how to wait is the great secret of success. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_365 All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_366 Here lies one whose name was writ in water. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_367 No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_368 Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_369 The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_37 By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_370 In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_371 Doubt grows with knowledge. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_372 When ideas fail, words come in very handy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_373 There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_374 Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_375 A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_376 Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_377 The best armour is to keep out of gunshot. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_378 To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_379 What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_38 All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_380 Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_381 Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last… my backbone is shot through. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_382 Frigates are the eyes of a fleet. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_383 First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_384 Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_385 Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_386 A ship's a fool to fight a fort. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_387 One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_388 The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_389 L'Ennemi ne s'endort (The enemy never sleeps) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_390 Au royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois (In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_391 Attaque, toujours l'attaque (The attack, always the attack) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_392 Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (Help yourself and heaven will help you) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_393 A vieux comptes nouvelles disputes (Old accounts breed new disputes) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_394 Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_395 Total war is the most humane in the long run. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_396 The age of chivalry is gone; and that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_397 How wonderful is Death? Death, and his brother Sleep! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_398 Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! False
quotes_quote_onscreen_399 We wage no war with women nor with priests.` False
quotes_quote_onscreen_4 Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_40 I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God Governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? False
quotes_quote_onscreen_400 As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_401 Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_402 The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_403 The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_404 Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_405 Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_406 Battles decide everything. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_407 The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_408 He is no gentleman. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_409 There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_41 To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_410 The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_411 Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_412 It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_413 Do the business of the day in the day. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_414 Believe me, every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_415 All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was on the other side of the hill". False
quotes_quote_onscreen_416 A great country cannot wage a little war. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_417 Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_418 Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_419 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_42 Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'… Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.' False
quotes_quote_onscreen_420 A great captain can only be formed by long experience and intense study. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_421 Go my friend, dispatch poor Vasiliky, that these dogs may not profane her beauteous form. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_422 Liberte, egalite, fraternite (Liberty, equality, fraternity) False
quotes_quote_onscreen_423 You sir, have an army. We have a travelling brothel. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_43 War always finds a way. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_44 War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_45 The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_46 No one starts a war - or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so - without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it. False
quotes_quote_onscreen_47 Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. False