"In an attack, in a group of six men, he is a scoundrel who lets himself be squeezed out behind."

--Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."

--Voltaire

"One must not think of the conquest of land but only of the destruction of his army, for if we can ruin his army, the lands will automatically fall to us."

--Emperor Francis Stephen of Tuscany to Prince Charles of Lorraine concerning the war against Frederick the Great

"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

"I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."

--Artemis Ward

"With troops like these one could dominate the whole world, if their victories were not just as costly for them as for their enemies."

--Frederick the Great

"Nothing is more uncertain than the outcome of a battle ... you may not risk any battle if the position is not very favorable or if you do not know exactly the strength of the two armies."

--Marquis de Santa Cruz (1687 -- 1732)

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