I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.