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

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

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

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

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.

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

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.