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 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.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Morality |