There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.