It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones
- Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Mes Réveries (1757)

These are not men, but devils!
- Colonel Francisco Milan, referring to the French Foreign Legion at Camerone

Gentlemen of the French Guard, fire first!
- Lord Charles Hay, Order to the opposing French Guards at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745

Never forget:  the Regiment is the foundation of everything
- Field Marshal Earl Wavell

The soldiers should make it an article of faith never to abandon their standard
- Marshal Maurice de Saxe, Mes Réveries (1757)

When dangers are great, there the greatest honours are to be won by men and the states
- Thucydides, Peloponnesian Wars, II 42

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi, XXXVIII (1531)