Carts Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

— Livy

My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

— Hamilcar Barca

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a…

— Augustus William Hare

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

— Winston Churchill

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“Napoleon once summarized his idea of strategic military planning: “You engage, and then you wait and see.” By making contact with the enemy and…

— Roy F. Baumeister

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

— Anonymous

“What triumph more complete than that of extorting from a conquered foe the admission that he is conquered?”

— Anonymous

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

— Leon Trotsky

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

— Gautama Buddha

“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.”

— Karen Essex