If you believe that you will believe anything.

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

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

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

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.

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