« All Military Quotes · Napoleon Bonaparte's Page
Military Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
- A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- 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.
- In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
- There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount…
- I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
- To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
- Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
- Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
- What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each…
- Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
- The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
- Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot...
- Battles are lost or won in 15 minites
More Military Quotes
- 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