Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (12 November 1743 – 6 May 1790) was a French general and military writer.
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Quotes
[edit]- Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs.
- Adelaide: Men make the laws:
Bayard: The morals women make. - Le Connétable de Bourbon (27 August 1775) act 1, sc. 4. Reported in W. Francis H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (London: J. Whitaker & Sons, 1904) p. 176, no. 1,363
- Adelaide: Men make the laws:
- The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results in war, and meanwhile the mass of the people, untrained in arms, degenerates....The hegemony over Europe will fall to that nation which...becomes possessed of manly virtues and creates a national army.
- Reported in "Guibert, Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de", Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911) vol. 12, p. 684
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