I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

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

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

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