Army Quote by Thucydides

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time…

— Edmund Burke

Discipline is the soul of an army.

— George Washington

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority…

— George Washington

Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their…

— George S. Patton

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

— George Washington

An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's…

— George Washington

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Many opportunities have been lost and hundreds of valuable lives uselessly sacrificed for want of a strict observance of discipline. Its object is to…

— Robert E. Lee

An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes,…

— J. F. C. Fuller