A great country cannot wage a little war.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

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