Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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.

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.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

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

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.