exercitus sine duce corpus est sine spiritu

an army without a leader is a body without a spirit

Notes

On a plaque at the former military staff building of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Words

sino – allow, leave undone, let, permit, suffer, to allow
duco – command, consider, considered, construct, count, delay, draw, draw in, esteem, influence, marry a wife, mislead, reckon, shape, spend, to calculate, to charm, to draw, to lead, to lead on the march
exercito – to practise diligently