De Saxe Quotes & Sayings

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

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit. — Maurice De Saxe

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

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones. — Maurice De Saxe

Many generals believe that they have done everything as soon as they have issued orders, and they order a great deal because they find many abuses. This is a false principle; proceeding in this fashion, they will never reestablish discipline — Maurice De Saxe

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