A great country cannot wage a little war.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

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

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

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

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

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.