Bernard Law Montgomery famous quotes

03-30-2025

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#War #Lying #Communication
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Fighting #Soldier #Battle
Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Discipline #Mind #Influence
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Soldier #Revolution #Authority
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#War #Air
Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#War #Fighting #Men
To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Lying #Pride #Men
Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Enemy #Profession
Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Military #Men #Leader
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Military #War #Fighting
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Decision #Quality #Chiefs
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Leadership #Character #Men
As God once said, and I think rightly...
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Thinking #Said
I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Wells
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#War #Book #Fighting
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Marine #Knights #Endurance
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Air #Pieces #Splits
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: â€œDo not march on Moscowâ€. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: â€œDo not go fighting with your land armies in Chinaâ€. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Country #War #Book

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