Maurice de Saxe
Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.Collection: Country
It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.Collection: Military
Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.Collection: Military
We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.Collection: Rain
Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.Collection: Defeated
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.Collection: Dance