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“The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.”
“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.”
“In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.”
“I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.”
“Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.”
Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims
“Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.”
“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding
“In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!”
“This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
Source: American ideals
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.”
“If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.”
“In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.”