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.

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

The ideal army would be the one in which every officer would know what he ought to do in every contingency; the best possible army is the one that comes closest to this. I give myself only half the credit for the battles I have won, and a general gets enough credit when he is named at all, for the fact is that a battle is won by the army.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.