"In war, the moral element and public..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
More by Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.”
“Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.”
“There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.”
More on Morale
“In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.”
“In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.”
“Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.”
More on Public Opinion
“It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.”
“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”
“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”