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

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

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

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Yes, about ten minutes.

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