The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Habit is ten times nature.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.