Maurice de Saxe quotes

“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.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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“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.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

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“It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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“Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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“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.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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“We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.”
-- Maurice de Saxe

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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”

“The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.”

“Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.”

“The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.”

“You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.”

“The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.”

“Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.”

“I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.”

Source : "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

“NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.”