Lazare Carnot Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready. ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go. ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion. And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.”
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“In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.”
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“When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.”
-- Lazare Carnot
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