Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1213
AUTHOR:
Napoleon I (1769–1821)
QUOTATION:
Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to NAPOLEON.—Maturin M. Ballou, Treasury of Thought, p. 407 (1899). Unverified.
A handwritten note in Congressional Research Service files says that the War Department Library had searched many times without success for a different version: “Morale is to material as is the ratio of three to one.”
