"If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion"
"An army marches on its stomach."
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Source: Attributed in Wash. Post, 18 Sept. 1898. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this was probably condensed from a long passage in E. A. de Las Cases Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) vol. 4, 14 Nov. 1816; also attributed to Frederick the Great, in Notes and Queries 10 March 1866. The 1866 attribution to Frederick is worded an army moves on (or by) its stomach.
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