Military Quotes/Quotations
V: Vilabla - Voltaire
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"The
soldier is the primary and most powerful mechanism of war."
- José Vilabla, Spanish general and military historian
God is always on
the side of the heaviest battalions.
- Francois Voltaire
OR
"God is not on
the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
(which Napoleon summarized as "God is on the side with the best
artillery!")
- Voltaire ("The Piccini
Notebooks")
"In this
country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the
others"
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"The best is
the enemy of the good."
- Voltaire
(1694-1778)
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