Great Throughts Treasury

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Maurice de Saxe, Count of Saxony

French Marshal General

"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."

"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."

"It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones!"