Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

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

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

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.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.