Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Military
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To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
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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 in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
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In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.
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Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
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One might as well try to charge through a wall.
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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
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Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
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In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
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I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.
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The secret of war lies in the communications.
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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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 all difficulties.
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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.
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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
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Without cavalry, battles are without result.
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory
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