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The army is the true nobility of our country.

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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.


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An army should have but a single line of operations which it should carefully preserve, and should abandon only when compelled by imperious circumstances.


The strength of an army, like the momentum in mechanics, is estimated by the weight multiplied by the velocity. A rapid march exerts a beneficial moral influence on the army and increases its means of victory.


The frontiers of nations are either large rivers, or chains of mountains, or deserts. Of all these obstacles to the march of an army, deserts are the most difficult to surmount; mountains come next; and large rivers hold only the third rank.


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