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Military Quotes by Frederick The Great
- Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a…
- Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to…
- Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
- Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.
- I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat…
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
- Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey