Manoeuvre Quotes
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The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.
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More Manoeuvre Quotes
Napoleon did not manoeuvre at all. He just moved forward inthe old style, in columns, and was drivenoff in the old style.
— 1815 Letter to SirWilliam Beresford, 2 Jul.
We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership
michael foot— explaining Labour's 1983 election defeat when he was leader in his book Another Heart And Other Pulses, 1984.
I had won notable victories on paper and the map with the aid of greaseproof pencils and a typewriter. In the course of this very campaign, if one may dignify the disaster thus, I had seen French generals create imaginary "masses of manoeuvre" with strokes of the crayon and dispose of hostile concentrations, that unahappily were on the ground as well as on the map, with sweeps of the eraser. Who was I to criticise them, hero as I was of a hundred "Chinagraph wars" of make-believe?
frederick e. morgan— Peace and War: A Soldier's Life (1961), p. 138
Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.
Ferdinand Foch— p. 175 (Precepts and Judgments (1919))
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
Ken Livingstone— Criticising Londoners who drive 4x4s in an interview with GMTV (broadcast 23 May 2004), as quoted in "Drivers of 4X4s in London are idiots, says Livingstone" by Ross Lydall in Evening Standard (21 May 2004)
Where force is necessary, one should make use of it boldly, resolutely, and right to the end. But it is as well to know the limitations of force; to know where to combine force with manoeuvre, assualt with conciliation.
— Leon Trotsky in What Next? (Quotes)
As those of us know who have taken part in battle, it is one thing to manoeuvre freely when secure in the knowledge that the man behind the gun is doing his best to miss us, but it is quite another thing when that same man is doing his utmost to liquidate you.
frederick e. morgan— Comment to his staff officers, on the crucial distinction between intensive battle training and actual battle (19 May 1943), quoted in History of COSSAC (May 1944) by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
